IT Scenario Process Guide 

Purpose

This scenario process guide applies to the SAP NetWeaver IT scenario Master Data Management.

The IT scenario consists of the following scenario variants:

●      Master-data consolidation
Allows to identify identical master data objects within heterogeneous landscapes, merge identical objects centrally, and provide the relevant key mapping information for further use in business operations or analytics.

●      Master-data harmonization
Organizations can cleanse master data on materials, retail articles, suppliers, and customers and leverage the results to perform enterprise-wide analytics, such as global spend analyses. Consolidated master data is then distributed to the connected remote systems to streamline business operations based on high-quality data.

●      Central master-data management
Organizations can consolidate and centrally manage their master data. They can support company-wide quality standards by ensuring that central control of master data begins as soon as the data is created.

Prerequisites

The system landscape is installed and configured for the IT scenario Master Data Management.

For more information see service.sap.com/installMDM ® MDM 5.5 – IT Scenario Configuration Guide

Features

This guide contains all steps required to perform the three scenario variants using the following SAP business systems as remote systems:

●      SAP Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) or R/3

●      SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

●      SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

●      SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI)

Although this guide and the predefined MDM business content (repositories, XI content, and so on) focus on the SAP remote systems above, they can serve as a model for executing the scenarios using other types of remote systems and master data object types (for example 3^rd party or customer remote systems).

This guide is not structured by scenario variants but by remote system type:

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       1.      For SAP Business Suite remote systems (ERP, R/3, CRM, SRM) the guide covers the whole variety of master data consolidation and harmonization variants.
For BI the guide describes how to load consolidated master data, which originally comes from SAP Business Suite remote systems, from MDM to BI for analytics.

       2.      For the special ERP case of an SAP for Retail remote system the guide covers the more complex handling of article master data in a separate chapter.