Data Governance Process for the SAP Material Master
Data Governance Material Master (MVM) offers rule-based, workflow-supported creation and maintenance of material master data in SAP. It improves data quality through integrated defaults and checks, provides transparency for all departments and supports compliance requirements such as GxP and SOX.
What is Data Governance Material Master (MVM)?
Marlin Data Governance Material Master (MDGM) professionally structures the creation, expansion and maintenance of material master data. All departments involved in maintenance receive a transparent and comprehensible view. With default values, derivations and checks, data is created quickly, reliably and without errors. The existing material master data can be regularly checked and corrected using the rules.
Your Requirements for Material Master Maintenance
Data Governance: Our Solution
Marlin Data Governance Material Master (MVM) is installed in an existing SAP® ERP or S/4HANA® system. If a master hub scenario is used, it is installed on the SAP master data master. Marlin Data Governance Material Master provides an intelligent and transparent workflow for material master creation and maintenance. Processes are assigned to users to ensure that they start the correct maintenance process. These processes show the flow and have a description of what they do. Thus, different processes are assigned depending on the user's operational task.
Once a process has been started, the process flow, maintenance views, default values, rules, SLAs, organizational levels such as the plant, and predicted completion are fixed and run through. The users involved in the process are informed by e-mail and use a transaction to list the requests to be processed with priority and status.
Using the integrated action box, the user can use further services depending on the process, such as adding notes, loading documents, using further programs via call transaction or individual customer activities. After processing, the views are released. They can be released individually or in groups. After release, the new entries, enhancements, or maintenance are carried out in the SAP material standard tables. All maintenance steps, default values, rules, notes, and documents are saved in a request document and are available for audit-proof compliance queries.
Analytics Dashboard
In the dashboard, you can view and track the current status of individual documents and evaluate statistical data on the frequency and effort for the requests in different contexts. You can see the statistical data on the frequency and distribution over time of the requests as well as the number of steps used, the number of views, the number of documents, and the provisions used per document.
Data Quality Board
The rules used in the workflow are used for the material master for quality assurance. An inspection project includes a selection of material master data and the selected rules. Master data that violates rules is displayed and can be changed manually.
Additional rules can be defined to measure quality. Furthermore, rules can be used that utilize dependent data such as the bill of materials. The rules are transparent, unambiguous and valid. The rule checks can be scheduled and the results statistically compared.
Data Quality Changeboard
A rule is a check. This check is extended in the change board with the correct result. Thus, the rule not only recognizes the error, but can also correct it. A change project includes a selection of material master data and the selected rules. The corrections are displayed for checking, simulation posting and posting. Master data that violates rules is corrected. The change board can also be used for data migrations to supplement and derive missing content.
Why MVM for your Material Master Data?
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