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Engineering change management for materials in MDM

Former Member
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Hi,

we want to replace a home-made material master data system by MDM, but need some Engineering Change Management functions like

- versions of material

- release dates

- different release dates in relation to different factories (i.e. client systems)

Any idea, how this could be handled in MDM ?

Michael Tegethoff

KONE GmbH

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Former Member
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Hello Michael:

All of that information you mention can be included on MDM as plain attributes on the Materials table.

As for Versions, if materials are updated thru MDM Import I'd suggest include the new version number and as import action choose "Update all mapped fields", that is, while importing the old version number will be updated.

for different release dates you can maintain as many date attributes as Factories you have. When harmonizing data (syndicating) you can map each factory to its correspondant release date, so the other factories won't even "notice" the other dates.

Please let me know if that helped at all.

Greetings!

Alejandro

Former Member
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Hello Alejandro,

thanks for your answer.

Do I understand correctly that we have to extend the data model of materials, because the original repository in the 'Business Content', coming with the installation of SAP MDM, does not support versions of materials ?

There is no standard way (i.e. supported/suggested by SAP) to do it ?

Regards

Michael

Former Member
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Hi,

If there is no field in the standard data model, then you shall have to extend the same. This shall require you to make changes in the map files also.

There are fields like Updated by and Updated on to maintain the latest history.

Hope that helps!

Regards,

Tanveer.

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