MDM Content

[william_cao]

Hi experts,

Is there any content shipped by SAP for NW MDM? I mean the data model/ rules/...

for application(ERP, SCM, CRM, SRM)

or for modules ( MM, SD, ...)

or for industries?

Thanks a lot!

[Former Member]

Hi William,

Yes SAP has shipped some standard content to integrate MDM with other SAP systems like ECC,SRM,CRM EP etc.

ERP:

SAP ERP system ECC can be integrated with MDM with standard business content repositories.SAP has provided std Business content rep based on the ECC system design.this is available as a .a2a archieve file which comes along with the MDM installation package.SAP has provided such Business content for Customer,Vendor,Material,article etc masters.All you have to do is unzip the archieve file and place it in the MDM archieve folder .then you can unarchive it from the MDM console and use teh predesigned rep in MDM for integrating with ECC system.

You can Obtain the SAP delivered Business content files from the below link:

https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700001119622007E(Downloading business content)

SRM:

Under similar lines SAP has Std business rep delivered to integarte MDM with SRM.This also comes along with the std installation package of SRM-MDM.you can unarcive the rep and use it to integarte srm with MDM.

You can refer the below link to understand SRM integration with MDM:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/6075d293-291b-2a10-7fbb-b827b28f...

http://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000679533&;

EP:

SAp has also provided some std Business content for POrtal to intgrate it with MDM .Some std iViews and templates are available in portal by depolying the MDM specific files on the portal server .You can then very easily integrate EP with backend MDM system.

Refer the below link to understand MDM integration with EP

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/bebdb8c4-0801-0010-aa81-a9b8d14e... (portal configurations,files deployment)

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/advancedsearch?cat=sdn_all&query=mahendra+sahu&adv=false&sortby=cm_r... basic)

On the similar lines you can also integrate systems like BI,CRM etc with MDM.

You can also integrate MDM suing API, such as ABAP api JAVA api etc for this even SAP has some std Function modules and data types predefined

Hope It Helped

Thanks & Regards

Simona Pinto

[Former Member]

Hi William,

SAP provides with standard business content that are ready to use repositories or say data models.

They are available as .a2a files along with the other components from the service market place.

To name few of them we have standard business content for material , vendor , customer, business partner , article etc.

You have to put these files in you MDM server folder and then unarchive them using console and these repositories will be ready to use.

For more information you can refer to the following links,

Hope it helps.

Thanks,

Minaz