Existence of entry ES and that Freeform, and Fuzzy settings are activated

This entry cannot be removed or deactivated (E-class entry delivered by SAP). You can verify these settings in Customizing for Master Data Governance under  General Settings Data Quality and Search Define Search Applications .

The pre-delivered Match Profile for the MM data model is MATCH_MM_MATERIAL. You can find this Match Profile in Customizing for Master Data Governance under  General Settings Data Quality and Search Search and Duplicate Check Define Search Applications

If you wish you can now define your own matching fields for calculating the potential duplicates and matching values.

Configuration of the duplicate check

If you want to run a duplicate check you have to assign the predelivered match profile MATCH_MM_MATERIAL or your own match profile to the MM data model and the MATERIAL entity type. Navigate to  General Settings Data Quality and Search Search and Duplicate Check Configure Duplicate Check for Entity Types . For search mode ES and data model MM select the field MPbased UI. Thresholds are not considered.

You can configure this check in Customizing for Master Data Governance under  Data Quality and Search Define Search Applications Configure Duplicate Check for Entity Types .

Assignment of the delivered search object connector templates

Ensure that for business object type 194 Material, the delivered search object container MDG_MATERIAL and the MDG_APPL software component is assigned.

You can check this in Customizing for Master Data Governance under  General Settings Data Quality and Search Assign Search Object Connector Templates to Object Types .