Is MDG limited to material / finance / partner data only?

[rennmart]

Dear all,

I have recently touched MDG and found it currently covering not all topics I have in mind when talking about master data governance.

What I haven't seen so far is:

- Distribution of price conditions (purchasing as well as sales). I know, the evaluated price within the material master can be distributed, but what about the scenario as follows:
Let's say there is one R/3 (or in future S/4) "master instance" where sales price conditions are maintained by the pricing department daily. Over night - or even nearly in realtime -, these prices conditions now should be available in three further R/3 systems, belonging to subcompanies in other countries.
All systems are linked together using an MDG system as a central distribution hub.
Is this possible using MDG in SAP standard, means w/o programming?

- The same counts for BOMs and also for material determination records in SD.

Thanks for helping in advance.

[subhronath_mukherjee]

There are lot of points which you have touched in your question. Let me try to share my take on them.

1. Ideally MDG as a hub model is best fitted to the scenario which you highlighted ie master data will be governed centrally and then distributed to different systems as per need. As you mentioned data within purchase and sales are part of the Vendor and Customer of BP data model.

2. MDG comes with some standard masters like for BP, Material and Finance and now the extended master objects like EAM ( Enterprise Asset management) and RFM (Retail and Fashion management) too. MDG can be on top of ECC as well as on S4 HANA too.

3. Apart from standard objects you can build any custom object as master as well since MDG is highly customizable tool, you can have your own data model, UI and workflows too all custom built.

Hope this helps.

[Mark63]

In this MDG overview presentation, you can see an overview of the master data objects which SAP MDG supports out-of-the box for central governance. In addition, the MDG application framework enables you to define your own objects subject to central governance (slides 17-18), or to extend the attribute coverage for a specific domain. See e.g., extension information about MDG for Material Data.

Best,

Markus