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Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

MDG_FOUNDATION

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available From

SAP enhancement package 2 for SAP Business Foundation 7.0

Technical Usage

None

Application Component

Master Data Governance (CA-MDG)

Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition

None

This business function enables you to use basic functions, including the following:

  • Enterprise-wide centralized managing of master data using SAP Business Workflow

  • Safeguarding of data quality

  • Replicating of master data in target systems

  • Documenting of master data changes

This provides your enterprise with the following benefits, which reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO):

  • More efficient master data management

  • Improved compliance with the fundamentals of adequate enterprise governance

  • Automated, secure, and documented replication of master data

This business function is a prerequisite for using the following business functions with their preconfigured data models:

This business function enables you to customize the preconfigured data models to meet your requirements and create your own data models without a template.

Integration

Once the business function is activated, you can make the following settings in Customizing under   Cross-Application Components   Processes and Tools for Enterprise Applications   Master Data Governance   General Settings  .

In the target systems, you activate the business functions that are relevant to your applications. For example, if you use the business function MDG_ERP_SUPPLIER in the central system, you can activate the business function CA_SUPPLIER_SOA in the target system.

Prerequisites

You have installed the software component SAP Business Suite Foundation (SAP_BS_FND), version 702 or later.

If you have activated the business function Financial Master Data Management: Charts of Accounts (FIN_MDM_ACC), you need to make some changeovers (for example, from UI models to UI configurations) before you can activate the given business function. For more information about the changeovers, see the Release Note MDG_FOUNDATION: Master Data Governance, Generic Functions.

Features

When you activate this business function, the following functions from the Master Data Governance (CA-MDG) component become available:

Generic Basic Functions

  • Enhance Existing Master Data Models or Create Your Own

    You can enhance the data models delivered by SAP (for example, by adding custom fields) and you can create your own data models and use them in the change processes.

  • Change Request

    You use change requests to change master data using workflow-based change processes. Quality assurance reports on the change process are available. You also can process change requests using SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe.

  • Data Replication Framework (DRF)

    The DRF is the technical platform for replicating the master data processed in a change request. You can use filters to make unrestricted and very granular data selections, for example, to replicate the data of certain company codes in very specific systems.

  • Key Mapping

    Function for mapping values determined at runtime (for example, business partner IDs or material numbers) in the central system and target system.

  • Value Mapping

    Function for mapping values determined at the time of design. While configuring the central system (in Customizing), you define, for example, country codes and map these to their counterparts located in the target system. The application-specific enterprise services use value mapping.

Changing and Replicating of Master Data

  • Master Data Governance enables you to change master data in workflow processes. You can assign authorizations to these workflow processes. The workflow processes are documented for reviewing purposes.

  • The system manages and documents all change steps in a change request.

  • You can access and edit the change requests from within a worklist in the portal.

  • You can replicate master data changes from the central system, in which you make and manage the changes, to the target systems. The DRF enables the automated replication of data. You can run such replications either on a regular basis or on demand. When doing so, you can use filters to determine which objects are to be replicated in which systems. In addition to IDocs and enterprise services, you also can use upload and download functions to replicate the master data changes to the target systems.