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MDG Product Management, SAP
July 2020
SAP Master Data GovernanceList of innovations since release MDG 8.0
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Innovations in SAP MDG 9.0/SAP MDG on S/4HANA 1610
Reflecting scope differences in ERP-based MDG and MDG on S/4HANA
Innovation only on
S/4HANA
1610 version
Consolidation of master data:
• Extended UI capabilities (e.g. show all data tables) and process enhancements (e.g. split of processes,
BRF+ integration)
• Scope extension to cover material data and custom objects (beyond business partner, supplier and
customer data)
NEW: Mass processing of master data
• Efficient data editing for data specialists in a tabular UI and intuitive process flow based on Fiori UX
Central Governance of master data
• Improved usability and performance in hierarchy processing.
• Material data: enhancements in DRF and multi-records processing in the material domain.
• Business Partner/customer/supplier data: multi-records processing; assign BP to hierarchy in single-object
maintenance, time-dependent BP relationships, support of texts for ERP customer/vendor data & more
• Financials: copy Chart of Accounts & company code data with template; enhanced side-panel content
displaying hierarchy changes
NEW: Data quality remediation of master data
Data quality control and remediation of product data
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Key Innovations in in SAP MDG 9.0/SAP MDG on S/4HANA 1610Consolidation: process enhancements & extended domain coverage
Feature Highlights
Business value
◼ Introduce consolidation of material master data and custom objects (in addition to business partner, customer and supplier data)
◼ Enhance agility with process-step enhancements (user interfaces for detail drilldowns, process flexibility improvements, custom validations,
enhanced audit trails, etc.)
Enable consolidation for material, business partner, customer, supplier data and
custom objects based on intuitive and flexible process with consumer-grade
user experience through SAP FIORI user interface
New process related capabilities:
• Remove records/split process (also as background step)
• Integration scenario using web service
• Integration of BRF+ as rule engine for process steps (incl. MDG checks)
• Additional authorizations for process handling
• Audit trail
New Fiori UI enhancements:
• Best record calculation review UI
• Edit capabilities
• Show data from all affected tables
• Drill-down into result data for each step
• Show step-related messages in Fiori UI
Calculate
Best RecordMatchStandardize ActivateValidate
Data Load
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Key Innovations in SAP MDG 9.0/SAP MDG on S/4HANA 1610New mass processing process for attribute mass changes
Feature Highlights
Business value
Introduce effective mass change process, putting master data steward in the driver’s seat for dedicated bulk changes in business partner,
customer/supplier, and material data, or custom objects
• Highly effective data processing option for master data specialists
• Efficiently edit individual fields or make bulk changes by using a tabular UI with
the ability to filter and sort data
• Automate changes by using rules (e.g. BRFplus) or other information sources
• Confidence and transparency when changing large volumes of data through
statistics, change indicators and ability to validate prior to activating changes
• Complements multi-records processing for bulk changes with the best fit of
governance for specialist’s work (lightweight or full change request process)
• Packaging, queuing, and parallelization contribute to enhanced performance
even when processing large volumes of data
• Prepare frequently executed change scenarios, enabling users to perform their
tasks without the need to understand field and table structures in detail
• Upload changes from CSV file to incorporate offline processing and other
information sources
• Background execution enables users to close the application while processing
continues. Users can check the status or proceed with their work later.
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Data Quality Remediation for Product Data*Upload files from external validation run and trigger remediation for erroneous product master data
Feature Highlights
Business Value
…
• Ensure high-quality product data for smooth business processes and reliable
analytics
Process Related Capabilities:
• Data upload from external sources for data quality evaluation
• Monitoring and administration of import processes
• Master data quality issues for products are shown in a worklist
• Filtering on object attributes and rule sets, groups and IDs
• For every rule violation a detailed description is offered
• Navigation to object data
• Navigation to object maintenance applications to remediate individual objects
or multiple-objects at a time
*) Innovation only available with SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA
◼ Import erroneous master data from external data quality validation tool to start the remediation process
◼ Master data quality issues are presented in a worklist which displays rules and object data and triggers the correction process
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Selected other innovations
Additional coverage through SAP Fiori Apps, now: Lean requests for Customer, Supplier, Business Partner, Material, Cost Center, Profit Center
Approval for Customer, Supplier, Material, GL Account, Cost Center, Profit Center
Additional integration scenarios Consolidation of customer data from hybris Omnichannel Commerce Mgmt., or 3rd party via
open Web Service
Supplier Portfolio Management as well as Supplier Self-Registration via Ariba SIPM.
Enrichment of master data to corporate needs for all qualified suppliers in SAP MDG
Process insight with SAP HANA-based analytics – extended scope SAP HANA-based analytics may now take data criticality into perspective, allowing analyses
of critical attributes (e.g., payment terms, short texts) and replication issues
Enhancements in central governance for master data domains Material: improved search usability (range selection of dates, personalization), usability
and efficiency improvements in multi-records processing, enhancements in DRF
BP: multi-records processing for business partner/customer/supplier, hierarchy assignment
in single-object maintenance, time-dependent BP relationships, customer / vendor texts
Financials: copy chart of accounts and company code data with template, enhanced side-
panel content displaying hierarchy changes
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Benefits of optional SAP HANA usage in SAP MDGSAP HANA-based Search and Duplicate Check
Search term and attribute-based
Using a single term as “free-style search” against all
attributes
Search per attribute with dedicated thresholds
Calculated similarity rank
Sorted result by weighted score across all attributes
Powerful duplicate detection
Integrated in process to prevent duplicates from being
even created
High detection quality using SAP HANA fuzzy search and
matching
Similarity score used to identify and sort potential duplicates
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Innovations in SAP MDG 9.1/SAP MDG on S/4HANA 1709
Reflecting scope differences in ERP-based MDG and MDG on S/4HANA
Innovation only on
S/4HANA
1709 version
Consolidation of master data:
• Support of classification data
• Support of Business Partner relationships
• Consolidation of active records
Mass processing of master data
• Support of Business Partner relationships
Central Governance of master data
• Enhanced handling of classification
• Support for Contract Account data
• Scope enhancements in Business Partner (Customer/Supplier) data, e.g., support for documents, payment
cards etc.
• Data model enhancements for Material/Product data covering shelf-live data and service parts
management
• Cross-domain – framework enhancements enabling archiving of change requests, support for data
protection and privacy compliance, integrated object creation in the hierarchy processing UI, etc.
Data quality remediation of master data
• Enhanced remediation of product data (simplified variant of collecting erroneous product data; summary
dashboard, providing relevant data-quality information at a glance)
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Master data consolidation and mass processing
▪ Consolidation of active data; handling of classification data, business partner relationships, mass creation or deletion scenarios, file upload, and transparency of changes – for business partner, material, and custom objects
Master data remediation** (only available on SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA)
▪ Master data quality analytics on SAP S/4HANA for simple quality issue detection and correction of product data
Central governance
▪ Improve the user experience for classification data handling for central governance of material data and enable classification data handling for central governance of customer and supplier data and within multiple records processing
▪ Capabilities related to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
▪ Customer-driven optimization, simplification and round-offs across all master data domains
SAP Master Data Governance – Innovations 2017* Master data excellence for the digital business
Benefit in performing enterprise master data management with MDG innovations across key disciplines such as master data
consolidation, mass processing, master data remediation, and central governance.
*) Innovations provided in SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA 1709/SAP MDG 9.1 (version on SAP ERP)
**) Innovation only available with SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA.
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Innovations:
▪ With release 1709, SAP S/4HANA not only provides
consolidation and de-duplication when loading new
master data, but also for central governance activities to
de-duplicate active master data records. This enables
customers to ensure superior master data quality and lead
to better business outcomes.
Business value:
▪ Drive better business outcomes with superior master data
▪ De-duplicate your master data during regular cleanup
activities
Consolidation of master dataInnovation: consolidation of active records
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Innovations:
▪ Master Data Governance Apps extended to cover business partner relationships enabling master data specialists to perform mass changes even more effectively. In addition, in the context of consolidating master data, duplicate business partner relationships can be identified and merged into a best-record.
Business value:
▪ Drive better business outcomes with superior master data
▪ De-duplicate your master data during regular cleanup activities
▪ Perform mass changes to business partner relationships more efficiently
Consolidation/mass processing of master dataInnovation: support for business-partner relationships
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Innovations:
Mass processing now supporting Office Open XML (XLSX)
format when changing business partner (incl. customer,
supplier) and product master data via file upload.
Business value:
▪ Highly effective mass change process enabling master
data stewards to perform bulk changes in business partner
and product data
New process-related capabilities:
▪ Upload changed records from CSV or Excel file to
incorporate offline processing and other information
sources
Mass processing of master dataProcess enhancements and extended scope
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Innovations:
Featuring summary dashboard, providing relevant data-
quality information at a glance.
Business value:
▪ Overview of master data quality issues for products at a
glance and easy-to-start remediation process
▪ Insights and drill-down for analysis of data quality issues
Master data remediation**Innovation: summary dashboard
New process-related capabilities:
▪ Number of errors in evaluation run by remediation status
▪ Displaying top 3 products with errors and top 3 rules violations, and errors in the latest 4 evaluation runs
▪ Errors by product group, product type, division; navigation to analytical drill-down
▪ Navigation to remediation process with context-based filter
**) Innovation only available with SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA.
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Innovations:
▪ Enable classification for Customer and Supplier
▪ Improve user experience for classification of
Material
Business value:
▪ Streamlined handling of classification data based
on consumer-grade user experience in central
governance
▪ Increased data quality by amplified governance
scope adding central control on information (e.g.,
classes and characteristic values) that determine
business partner and material data based on its
properties
Central governanceInnovation: classification in central governance
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Innovations/Business Value:
▪ Scope enhancements for Customer, Supplier data by
supporting documents, payment cards, unloading points.
Enabling multiple assigned customer and vendor accounts
with deviating addresses. Simplified maintenance of contact
person data and industries selection.
▪ Support for data privacy initiatives and to ensure protection
of personal data in Customer or Supplier data, like masking
personal data on the user interface.
▪ Scope enhancements for Material: adding general storage
and shelf-live data, and data from service parts management
▪ Archiving of completed change requests (CRs) for improved
system performance and full life cycle management for CRs
Central governanceOther selected innovations
MDG handling customer data with several addresses
Extended scope of the Material data domain
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Innovations in SAP MDG 9.2/SAP MDG on S/4HANA 1809
Reflecting scope differences in ERP-based MDG and MDG on S/4HANA
Innovation only on
S/4HANA
1809 version
Consolidation of master data:
• Support for multiple vendor and customer assignments of business partners
Mass processing of master data
• Multiple vendor and customer assignments in mass processing of business partner data
• Classification data in mass processing of material, customer, and vendor data
Central Governance of master data
• Use of newly added customers and vendors as references for partner functions within the same change
request
• Load and replicate FI-CA Contract Accounts via SOA-Service
• Adoption of simplifications and enhancements for SAP S/4HANA for the SAP Master Data Governance
application and user interface enhancements for material searches
• Adoption of the universal journal for SAP S/4HANA with general ledger accounts as the basis for cost-
element data
• Central governance for internal order master data
Process and Data Quality Analytics
• Summary dashboard and analytical list pages displaying relevant process information at a glance and
enabling users to drill down and start completing the processes
• Manage business rules and analyze data quality for products
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Master data consolidation and mass processing
▪ Multiple vendor and customer assignments of business partners*
▪ Classification data of materials, customers, vendors in mass processing
Central master data governance
▪ Financial Data: Adopt S/4HANA universal journal, i.e. G/L accounts as basis
for cost element*; support for new domain: internal order
▪ Product: Adopt S/4HANA simplifications and industry-specific enhancements*
▪ Business Partner: Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Data Enrichment and
enhancement in multiple customer and vendor assignments
Data quality management
▪ Manage business rules in collaboration of business users and data stewards*
▪ Measure and analyze data quality and trends*
▪ Correction of data quality issues supported by worklists and embedded analytics*
Process analytics
▪ Enhanced SAP Fiori user experience in process analytics*
SAP Master Data Governance – Innovations 20181
Master data excellence for the digital business
Benefit in performing enterprise master data management with MDG innovations across key disciplines such as
master data consolidation, central governance, mass processing, and master data quality management.
1) All innovations provided in SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA 1809,
innovations marked by an asterisk are not planned for SAP MDG on SAP ERP
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SAP Community
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Consolidation of master dataSupport for multiple vendor and customer assignments and process enhancements*
Innovations:
▪ Support of multiple assignments for vendors and customers*
▪ Deletion capability in best record calculation
▪ Re-validation of data after manual changes
▪ Search and display changes of active records
Business value:
▪ Enhanced consolidation of business partner data by integration
of multiple vendor and customer assignments in the
identification of duplicates and calculation of best records
▪ More process flexibility by applying manual data changes
*) Only available with SAP S/4HANA 1809. Not planned for SAP Master Data Governance on SAP ERP.
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Mass processing of master dataSupport for multiple vendor and customer assignments, classification and process enhancements
Innovations:
▪ Support of multiple assignments for vendors and customers*
▪ Change classification data in mass processes
▪ Export of master data into spreadsheet format for offline
changes and upload into a mass process
▪ Re-validation of data after manual changes
▪ Search and display changes of active records
Business value:
▪ Enhanced mass processing with extended scope for business
partner data
▪ Flexibility to change classification data using a mass process
*) Only available with SAP S/4HANA 1809. Not planned for SAP Master Data Governance on SAP ERP
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Central governance of financial master dataCentral governance for internal order master data
Innovations:
With release 1809, SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA covers:
▪ Central maintenance and governance of internal order master data
▪ Replicating internal orders via IDOC or SOA* from MDG system
▪ Receiving internal orders via IDOC or SOA into SAP S/4HANA,
via IDOC into SAP ERP
▪ Initial load of internal orders into MDG (e.g. from SAP ERP or SAP
S/4HANA)
Business value:
▪ Centralized governance, compliance and transparency of master
data during creation and change through integrated staging, approval
and central audit trail
▪ Consistent definition, authorization and replication of internal order
master data, keeps data consistent cross systems
▪ Elimination of error-prone manual maintenance processes for internal
order master data in multiple systems
*) SOA replication is only available with SAP S/4HANA 1809. Not planned for SAP Master Data Governance on SAP ERP
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Cost Elements in SAP ERP
Central governance of financial master dataMerge cost element into G/L account*
Innovations:
SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA 1809 covers:
▪ Central maintenance of controlling data (cost element)
integrated into the G/L Account user interface
▪ Replication of cost element data to S/4HANA can be done
via the G/L Account IDOC and SOA service
Business value:
▪ Simplified maintenance of financial master data
▪ Harmonized behavior as in SAP S/4HANA
▪ Simplified replication channel to lower TCO
*) Adoption of the universal journal for SAP S/4HANA is only available in SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA. Not planned for SAP MDG on SAP ERP.
SAP MDG on
SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA
SAP ERP
G/L Account SOA or IDOC
G/L Account SOA or IDOC
Cost Element SOA or IDOC
G/L Account Outbound
Cost Element Outbound
G/L Account Inbound
Cost Element Inbound
G/L Account Outbound G/L Account Inbound
MDG G/L MDG CE
CE
CE
G/L
G/L
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Central governance of master dataScope enhancements and simplifications for business partner and material domains
Innovations:
With release 1809, SAP S/4HANA has increased data coverage
in central governance for…
…business partner:
▪ Use of newly added customers and vendors for a business
partner as references for partner functions within the same
change request*
▪ Load and replication of contract accounts (FI-CA) via service-
oriented architecture (SOA) service
…and material domains:
▪ Adoption of enhancements and simplifications of SAP S/4HANA
for the MDG for material application*
▪ Defaulting of search engine SAP HANA-based search for MDG
for material*
*) Only available with SAP S/4HANA 1809. Not planned for SAP Master Data Governance on SAP ERP
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Central governance of business partner, customer, supplier master dataEnrichment via SAP S/4HANA Cloud for data enrichment
Innovations:
Though integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud for data enrichment
you can enrich master data with name, address and identification
information from external data providers, when…
▪ …creating a new business partner, customer or supplier master
data record
▪ …changing an existing business partner, customer or
supplier master data record
Business value:
▪ Leverage value added insights via business partner information
provided by external data providers, like Dun & Bradstreet
▪ Considerably reduce the risk of errors in manual data creation
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Process analytics for governing master data Enhanced SAP Fiori user experience in process analytics*
Innovations:
With release 1809, SAP S/4HANA has increased SAP FIORI-
based process analytics for governing master data, including:
▪ Summary dashboard and analytical list pages displaying
relevant process information at a glance
Business value:
▪ One-stop information on prevailing process quality in central
governance, consolidation, and mass processing
▪ Intuitive navigation and drill down for detailed analysis of
process-quality issues
*) Only available with SAP S/4HANA 1809. Not planned for SAP Master Data Governance on SAP ERP
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Master data quality managementManaging data quality rules*
Innovations:
With release 1809, SAP S/4HANA provides data quality
management for product master data, including:
▪ Repository to catalog and define data-quality rules
▪ Comprehensive description of rules, including business
aspects, ownership, and rule implementations
▪ Collaboration and status handling during the lifecycle of
rules, from creation to sunset
Business value:
▪ Central place for data-quality rules for product master data
▪ Transparency on business aspects, usages and technical
implementations of rules
*) Only available with SAP S/4HANA 1809. Not planned for SAP Master Data Governance on SAP ERP
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Master data quality managementMeasuring and analyzing data quality*
Innovations:
With release 1809, SAP S/4HANA provides data quality
management for product master data, including:
▪ Evaluation of master data using data-quality rules
▪ Analysis of incorrect data and correction of identified issues
▪ Definition of data-quality scores as KPIs for master data
management
▪ Reporting and analysis of scores
Business value:
▪ Consistent quality definition for product master data
▪ Continuous data-quality evaluation and monitoring
*) Only available with SAP S/4HANA 1809. Not planned for SAP Master Data Governance on SAP ERP
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Consolidation and mass processing▪ Summary of changes after activation step; several data model extensions; support
of compressed CSV files for import and export; handling of cross-references
▪ Enhanced mass maintenance included in SAP Master Data Governance, retail and
fashion management extension by Utopia
▪ Mass enrichment with external data from SAP Cloud Platform for data enrichment
▪ Enhanced address validation
Central governance▪ Enhanced workflow flexibility and transparency via follow-up steps (after activation),
follow-up change requests, and a change request tracker
▪ Option to search change requests by business data
▪ Domain-specific enhancements (prioritized through SAP Customer Connection
and SAP user groups)
Data quality management▪ Machine learning for business rules mining and versatile rule lifecycle mgmt.
▪ Extended coverage (business partner, customer, supplier, and custom objects)
SAP Master Data Governance on S/4HANA 1909: Recent innovationsMaster data excellence for the digital business
Comprehensive processes for the entire master data lifecycle, covering central governance and consolidation
Empowering business agility with data quality management, process analytics, and a consumer-grade user experience
Strong foundation for improved business efficiency and process flexibility, enabling simplification
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Innovations:
▪ Summary of changes to access change documents
after activation step*
▪ Support of compressed CSV files to save memory
consumption during data load*
▪ Enhanced address validation with review capabilities
for ambiguous address data*
▪ Handling of cross references when loading data from
source systems*
▪ Support of mass creation scenarios w/o creation of
key mapping*
Business value:
▪ Increased effectiveness in the consolidation of Business Partner data and Product data
Consolidation of master dataIncreased effectiveness in the process
* All innovations provided in SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA 1909, innovations marked by an asterisk are not planned for SAP MDG on ERP 6.0
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Innovations:
▪ Summary of changes to access change documents
after activation step*
▪ Extended data model coverage*:
– Business Partner: Credit Management,
Unloading Points, Long Texts,…
– Product: Production Resources & Tools, …
Business value:
▪ Increased effectiveness in mass processing
of Business Partner data and Product data
Mass processing of master data Enhanced data model coverage and efficient process flow
* All innovations provided in SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA 1909, innovations marked by an asterisk are not planned for SAP MDG on ERP 6.0
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Innovations:
▪ Enhance workflow flexibility and transparency via
additional steps after activation and follow-up
change requests*
▪ Change request tracker
▪ Option to search change requests by business data
▪ Pre-Set Data Model with URL parameter USMD_MODEL
Business value:
▪ Improved scope for action in setting up and running
workflows in central governance
▪ Improve the efficiency of master data specialists in
their audit trail tasks in central governance
Central governance of master dataEnhancements in process and functional scope
* All innovations provided in SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA 1909, innovations marked by an asterisk are not planned for SAP MDG on ERP 6.0
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Business Partner / Customer / Supplier:
▪ Improved error handling in UI
▪ Apply rules from rules repository in change request
processing*
Product / Material:
▪ Enable editing of the price unit
▪ Use preferred language for material description in
search result list
▪ Production Resources & Tools fields and relevant
SCM fields at MRP area level added to data model*
▪ Enable change request processing for inbound
Product SOAP messages*
Central governance of master dataDomain-specific enhancements, prioritized through SAP Customer Connection and SAP user groups
* All innovations provided in SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA 1909, innovations marked by an asterisk are not planned for SAP MDG on ERP 6.0
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Innovations:
▪ Covering the domain Business Partner as well as custom-defined objects (in addition to Product which was provided in 1809)*
▪ Mining for business rules, by applying machine learning for data analysis, and allow to directly create new rules from mined rules*
▪ Using managed data quality rules for checks in change requests (available for Business Partner data, planned for Product data)*
▪ Export and import of master data quality rules*
Business value:
▪ Rule Mining proposes potential rules supported by statistics
▪ Automatic rule implementation reduces manual effort for rules creation
▪ Integrated with the end-to-end process of data quality evaluation and central governance
▪ Discover new aspects to improve master data quality
Master data quality managementEnhancements in process and functional scope
* All innovations provided in SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA 1909, innovations marked by an asterisk are not planned for SAP MDG on ERP 6.0
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Innovations
With SAP S/4HANA you can use rule mining to
discover rules in existing master data
▪ Use mining runs to analyze existing master data
▪ Collaboratively decide on business relevancy of
proposed rules from rule mining
▪ Create and link data quality rules from accepted rules
▪ Information from rule mining can be used in
implementation of data quality rules
Business value
▪ Ease and shorten the discovery of rules with
machine learning
▪ Efficiently qualify and implement discovered rules
as data quality rules
Master data quality management: rule miningApply machine learning to discover rules in existing master data
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Example: Innovations based on requests from the 2018
SAP MDG Customer Connection campaign:
https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/1422
How can we provide innovations on ERP?
▪ Some S/4HANA innovations cannot be provided on ERP, because of differences in architecture
▪ Some innovations can only be provided in a release, and we do not plan to provide a new release for SAP MDG on ERP in the year 2019
▪ We do provide several innovations as SAP Notes for SAP MDG on ERP (even for releases as low as SAP MDG 8.0)
Consequence
▪ You might not need to upgrade your SAP MDG on ERP release to consume innovations provided via SAP Notes
▪ Not all innovations provided in SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA 1909 will be available on ERP
▪ Start new MDG implementations on S/4HANA. If you are on ERP, plan for conversion in the future
Providing innovations to SAP MDG on SAP ERP 6.0SAP innovations in SAP MDG on S/4HANA are outpacing innovations in SAP MDG on ERP
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Consolidation of Master Data
Innovations SAP MDG on
ECC
SAP MDG on
S/4HANA
Support for multiple vendor and customer assignments of business
partners ✓
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Central Governance of Master Data
Innovations SAP MDG on
ECC
SAP MDG on
S/4HANA
Use of newly added customers and vendors as references for partner
functions within the same change request ✓
Load and replicate FI-CA Contract Accounts via SOA-Service ✓
Adoption of simplifications and enhancements for SAP S/4HANA for the
SAP Master Data Governance application and user interface
enhancements for material searches
✓
Adoption of the universal journal for SAP S/4HANA with general ledger
accounts as the basis for cost-element data ✓
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Data Quality Management of Master Data
Innovations SAP MDG on
ECC
SAP MDG on
S/4HANA
Manage business rules and analyze data quality for products ✓
Correct data quality issues supported by worklists and embedded analytics ✓
Rule mining based on Machine Learning ✓
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Process Analytics
Innovations SAP MDG on
ECC
SAP MDG on
S/4HANASummary dashboard and analytical list pages based on CDS views,
displaying relevant process information at a glance and enabling users to
drill down and start completing the processes
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