SAP Master Data Governance Essentials: Central Governance, Consolidation, Data Quality and the Cloud Edition

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MDG essentials card

• Styles: central governance (one record, workflow), consolidation (import, match, best record), mass processing (bulk change), data quality management, federation.
• Deployment: co-deployed in SAP S/4HANA or hub; cloud edition is SaaS on SAP BTP (business partner today).
• Change request: data in staging until the last approval; activation writes the operational record.
• Rule-based workflow: BRFplus decision tables per change request type (USMD_SSW_RULE): next step, user agents, background steps.
• Route on data values (bank data changed → finance approval), not on people.
• Matching scores similarity; the business decides identity. Review uncertain and high-impact matches.
• Data quality rule: scope + condition in BRFplus, base table, owner, status (New → To Be Implemented → To Be Tested → Approved).
• Roll out rules: evaluate, clean up, then enforce in change requests.
• DRF: replication model, outbound implementation, filters, channel, key and value mapping; DRFOUT, DRFRSD, SLG1 (DRF_OUTBOUND).
• Baseline data quality before MDG goes live, so improvement can be signed.