Master data management is essential for digital transformation.

As businesses transition to digital ecosystems, the need for consistent, accurate, and well-governed data becomes paramount. SAP Master Data Governance enables enterprises to consolidate and govern master data, providing a foundation for monitoring data processes and reducing total cost of ownership.

medepia offers comprehensive services through Master Data Governance that ensure businesses can manage their core data assets effectively and sustainably. Here’s a breakdown of what Medepia delivers:

Setting up the MDG Framework:

Let us support you in establishing a robust MDG framework tailored to your business needs. Our expertise ensures that your SAP Master Data Governance system is configured with the right data models, governance processes, and validation rules, enabling efficient and reliable master data management across your enterprise.

Transform your Business Processes and enbedd your Business Rules:

We support you in analyzing and optimizing your business processes, transforming them into MDG maintenance processes with comprehensive validation and derivation rules.

This ensures that your master data governance aligns seamlessly with your operational needs, enhancing data accuracy and process efficiency.

Data Centralization:

We help businesses centralize their master data from various sources, ensuring consistency across the organization. This enables better decision-making by ensuring all data is accurate and up-to-date.

Stay Clean or Stay on a high Data Quality:

Through robust governance frameworks, we ensure that data quality is continuously monitored and improved. This reduces data redundancy and inaccuracies, leading to more reliable operational processes.

Support for Digital Transformation:

We ensure that master data governance is aligned with businesses’ digital transformation efforts, allowing them to seamlessly integrate new technologies and innovate without compromising data integrity.

Some Typical Use cases

Central Governance

Create and maintain master data in a central hub-system that adheres to established data rules and standards. The centrally maintained master data is then replicated to satellite systems, ensuring that these systems have access to high-quality, consistent data across the organization.

Data Modeling

MDG data modeling in SAP Master Data Governance refers to the process of designing and defining how master data will be structured, governed, and maintained within the system. Out-of-the-box data models can be enhanced by customer-sprecific fields or new models can be created from scratch. Following data models are available through SAP delivery:

Material (MM)

For governing material master data.

Business Partner (BP)

For governing business partner, customer, supplier, and contract accounts.

Financials (OG)

For governing financial master data, such as general ledger accounts, cost centers, profit centers, internal orders, etc.

User Interface Modeling

The main user interface (UI) layer for SAP Master Data Governance is based on Web Dynpro and SAP Fiori technology. The modeling in SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) involves configuring and customizing the front-end interfaces that users interact with during the master data management processes. This process ensures that the user experience is intuitive, streamlined, and aligned with the organization’s specific business needs. A user-centric interface is then provided for business users.

Process Modeling

In the context of SAP Master Data Governance it refers to the design and configuration of workflows and processes that govern the creation, maintenance, and approval of master data within the organization. It ensures that master data follows a structured path, involving the right stakeholders at each step to maintain data quality and compliance.

SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition

It complements SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA and does not replace it. This solution governs core master data attributes that are independent of specific applications, utilizing the SAP One Domain Model. It leverages SAP Master Data Integration to seamlessly share master data across hybrid landscapes. Additionally, it serves as the foundation for the federation of SAP Master Data Governance, ensuring consistent data management across distributed systems.

Central Governance for Business Partners: SAP Fiori Tiles:

It’s provided as a service on SAP BTP and is based on core master data attributes of SAP One Domain Model.