SAP Master Data Governance Reviews

In SAP Master Data Governance, I have around seven years of experience. I'm expert in all the customization and standardization, having worked on greenfield and brownfield, standard implementation, and customizations.

I have worked on implementation, support, and rollout projects for SAP Master Data Governance during my seven years as an expert.

The best feature in SAP Master Data Governance is demonstrated in my current work on the Etisalat project in UAE, Middle East Dubai project. A customer created one request based on the roles, FL customer roles, FI customer, normal customer, and credit management. As per business restrictions, they are not allowing payment card details due to their strictly confidential nature, so we prevent that functionality. If payment details are required, SAP provides opportunities under the company code payment methods and payment types. Accordingly, the company will conduct payment transactions. If the bank customer does not have any payment options required, we will enable the bank data features at the customer level. The user will add the bank payment details, based on that the other party, such as vendors, will process the payments. The reason for not suggesting payment card details is confidentiality, so we are giving the details directly to the vendors.

SAP is a closed tool. Integrating with it requires a lot of effort and money. It is also very expensive and not flexible. 

If you want to make a change, it takes 30-60 working days compared to others, where you can do things in one hour.

It is very stable. RiverFront is less stable.

I've got clients from multiple industries who use the solution across the industries, including consumer products, FMCG, the high-tech industry, services clients, and resources. We use the solution for central finance-related clients, the customer services department, sales and distribution, and the manufacturing process.

I like how the solution integrates with other SAP tools and third-party solutions.

The standard SAP MDG solution is for business partners, materials, and financial master data. For retail, you can manage products and materials through Article Master Data.  

The validation and derivation rules are one of the advantages for maintaining data quality. We can also build approval processes and governance within the system. These are the two main advantages.

Integration:

We can use both inbound and outbound interfaces for integration. SAP MDG has built-in integration capabilities with multiple systems/streams. We can also create custom interfaces if needed, for example, with Adobe or other upstream or downstream systems. It's reasonably good.

When I think about data integration, it is very smooth and simple to upload or download data to and from SAP MDG. There are multiple processes in MDG for this.

My technical expertise allows me to provide end-to-end implementation support, including managing interfaces between applications.

We use it for data consolidation, DQM (data quality management), data validation, UI application, and more within the SAP application landscape.

One of the key benefits comes from the data quality features. In large-scale industries with significant amounts of master data, avoiding duplication is crucial. Duplicate entries can negatively impact business operations.

Data quality features also ensure data consistency. By connecting to a central system, we establish a single source of truth. Then, we can reliably distribute this accurate data across all connected systems.

For example, if a company has numerous internal systems, we can maintain all the data in one central location and distribute it seamlessly and securely. Data consistency is a major advantage.

Moreover, we can configure SAP Master Data Governance to establish data accuracy rules.

With SAP Master Data Governance, we can maintain workflows with multiple approvals. Previously, we needed approval from different teams and, finally, from our coding team. 

Now, we can manage a multiple-step approval process. We can even assign a single master data record to two people for parallel approval. This flexibility in workflow management allows us to streamline the upload process and manage tasks efficiently within SAP MDG.

So, the workflow management in SAP Master Data Governance benefited your organization.

We use the platform for centralizing and streamlining the management of an organization's master data.

With MDG, we have established an efficient process for easily managing country-specific data. At an enterprise level, it has proven valuable in imposing control over master data changes across different countries.

SAP Master Data Governance functions as a standard data model, offering users both an inbuilt and custom data model. Regardless of the type of data or attributes involved, users can add, delete, and decompose fields and attributes based on the specific data model, whether it pertains to suppliers, customers, finance, or master data. Once the governance process is completed, the data can be seamlessly moved to the target system, showcasing one of the key advantages of SAP Master Data Governance.

SAP Master Data Governance is a very good product, allowing users to identify duplicate records easily. In the solution, you can store records as golden records and monitor data quality. For consolidation purposes, the solution allows you to use the bulk data.

In my experience with SAP Master Data Governance, I have primarily dealt with the custom data model, involving the addition of new fields under BP categories or vendor sections. When a custom field is added at the product's UI level, data retrieval from the third-party system becomes possible. The SAP Master Data Governance API operates in the background, incorporating the workflow. Once the workflow is triggered, the change request linked to the BP number is updated at the table level, as per the custom data table number requirement, and then the details are pushed to the target system. The aforementioned process stands as an advantage of SAP Master Data Governance.

As a consultant, the use cases for SAP Master Data Governance include creating customers and suppliers.

As a consultant, I think the best advantages of the product are to have a consolidated database of master data, which really stands out. The main purpose of SAP Master Data Governance is maintaining a single source of truth for enterprise data.

It helps a lot and works quite well. We have been implementing these initiatives in many countries, and most end-users are happy to find their supplier and customer data in one place.