Step by step procedure of SAP MDM process

[Former Member]

Hi PP Gurus,

Can anybody give me the step by step process of SAP MDM.

Regards,

Pramod

[Former Member]

Hi,

1.First of all you need to know the list of the source systems whose master data you need to maintain in MDM.You can have the source data in the form of XML, excel or MS Access etc. The first thing you need to perform is designing of the repository in the MDM console wherein you have the structure for the incoming data . Here you also need to create the users , roles , mention the remote systems from where you are extracting the data .Then Extract or import source data (e.g. Customer master data, Product master data, etc) from connected remote sytems i.e client applications.

2. Consolidate this data centrally on MDM, cleanse it.

3. Then harmonize or export the data through MDM syndicator tool. Then if there is FTP then dump all your XML data in the FTP from where SAP XI would pick the data and send it back to the different client systems from where you have fetched the data.

4. In the client applications, the received data can be complemented with local attributes.

Reward points if it is helpful.

Regards,

Chinmoy

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chinmoy mohanty

[Former Member]

Hi Pramod,

There can be several steps carried out in MDM but the primary functionality of MDM is as follows:

- MDM is primarily used for Data cleansing so the first step is to have a source with unclean data.

- This source file need to be imported into MDM for clensing.

- Once it is imported using MDM import manager you can cleanse the data in MDM data manager.

- And finally you syndicate the cleansed that back to the respective system in the MDM syndicator.

Regards,

Simona

[Mark63]

Hi Pramod,

On a very high level the main process flow in MDM is as follows:

1. Extract and import source data (e.g. Product data) from connected remote sytems (client applications)

2. Consolidate this data centrally on MDM

3. Provide this consolidated information to the client applications to ensure that the master data quality improves in the overall system landscape

4. In the client applications, the received data can be complemented with locally relevant attributes.

There are specific core scenarios and business scenarios. For further overview information, see the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/43/D7AED5058201B4E10000000A11466F/frameset.htm ff.

Regards, Markus