Hello Experts,
I am working on Material Consolidation in MDM where in I have to consolidate the Material master from three different SAP systems in SAP MDM then harmonize the data back to each of these ECC systems. Centralization using portal will follow once this is done.
All the mentioned ECC systems are three entirely different business working independently
To define the enterprise data model there are two questions for which I am looking for answers based on Best practises standpoint and with your experiences in MDM projects
Question 1: Is it a good practice to maintain Plant, Sales org, Purchase org and Classification data and other Local data in SAP MDM Material repository for all the three ECCsystems. I understand this would unnecessarily load the repositoryu. But still looking for your experiences to explore whether there is any business benefit to do this.
Question 2: Let's assume that we maintain only the Global attributes in SAP MDM for material repository then in that case , how do we define the material at global level. From my standpoint Material Global repository should have following fields which would uniquely define the material
(Material Description, Base unit of Measure, Material Type, Industry Sector, Alternative Unit of Measure, Material Group)
Is it the right approach or should I consider some other attributes as well?
Moreover If I define these as Global Attributes then these definitions will have to imposed on the all the three ECC systems which would be a major change as all of the three have different definitions for the abovementioned attributes.
Request your valuable inputs on what should feasible and practical best approach.
Best Regards
Manoj
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