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 Master Data Governance, Generic Functions 3

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

MDG_FOUNDATION_3

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available From

SAP Master Data Governance 6.1

Technical Usage

Master Data Governance

Application Component

Master Data Governance (CA-MDG)

Required Business Function

Master Data Governance, Generic Functions (MDG_FOUNDATION)

Master Data Governance, Generic Functions 2 (MDG_FOUNDATION_2)

You can use this business function to employ new features of SAP Master Data Governance for defining the governance scope, the blocking of entities and the data quality remediation.

You can use this business function to tailor the preconfigured data models for Financials, Material, Supplier, and Customer, or to create your own data models without using a template.

Integration

Once the business function is activated, you can adjust your Customizing settings under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Processes and Tools for Enterprise Applications Next navigation step Master Data Governance Next navigation step General Settings End of the navigation path. In the target systems, you activate the business functions of SAP Master Data Governance that are relevant to your applications.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

    Type of Component

    Component

    Required for the Following Features Only

    Software Component

    MDG_FND 732

    Note Note

    For information on MDG business functions and activated industry solutions, see SAP Note 1690202Information published on SAP site.

    End of the note.

Features

When you activate this business function, the following features of the application component SAP Master Data Governance (CA-MDG) become available:

Governance Scope

You can allow or disallow the update of fields in single processing, in mass change, and in file upload.

Ungoverned fields can still be used in the following areas:

  • Single processing UI (as read-only fields)

  • Business rules (for checks)

  • File download

  • Search

Blocking of Entities

With this function you can prevent that entities are changed due to application specific reasons. With the MDG application framework you can block entities to ensure that these entities are not added to change requests. The system checks, if application specific reasons exist, whenever an entity is added to the object list of a change request.

This function covers the following use cases:

  • External Reason: The entity is blocked independent of whether any other entity is being processed with a change request.

  • Same Entity Type (Symmetric): The processing of an entity blocks the processing of another entity and vice-versa.

  • Same Entity Type (Asymmetric): The processing of one entity blocks another, but not vice-versa.

  • Other Entity Type: Processing of one entity blocks entities of another type.

Data Quality Remediation

The data quality remediation provides the process integration of identifying master data objects with errors in a data quality tool as the SAP Information Steward, for example, and their correction in Master Data Governance. In order to use this process, you additionally need to implement a tool that is not part of the delivery of SAP Master Data Governance 6.1.

After you have implemented a data quality tool you can use the data quality remediation to do the following:

  • You can analyze master data according to a set of data quality rules to detect objects with errors.

  • If a data quality tool offers the filtering of the objects with errors according to a rule (or a set of rules), MDG allows the master data specialist to select the criteria for the filtering.

  • The data quality remediation retrieves the objects with errors and displays them for investigation by the master data specialist. The master data specialist selects an object with errors and creates a change request for the data quality remediation.

Role

The following new role provides the menu and authorizations for working with the example data model SF (Flight Data Model) and the related processes of the application framework of SAP Master Data Governance for custom objects using SAP NetWeaver Business Client:

  • Custom Objects for Master Data Governance - Flight Data Model (SAP_MDGX_FND_SAMPLE_SF_03)