SAP Solution Brief
SAP Business Suite
SAP Master Data Governance
Manufacturing and logistics organizations
face complex material master data gov-
ernance challenges. Without integrated,
centralized data governance, companies
have unstructured data processes that
are not sufficiently controlled or guided.
Data collection is time-consuming,
slow, and error-prone. Homegrown,
hard-coded solutions have a high total
cost of ownership (TCO) and do not
provide the flexibility required by business
units from finance to procurement.
To optimize material master data gover-
nance, companies need to establish
“maintain once, use everywhere” best
practices, and reduce costs by eliminat-
ing redundant maintenance efforts and
duplicate entries. Companies must in-
crease the quality of material master
data through central management and
governance. Gain consistent insight into
sales, manufacturing, and procurement
volumes. Accelerate availability of up-
to-date master data across the business
network. Improve transparency into
material data creation and changes.
And leverage existing enterprise soft-
ware investments.
The SAP® Master Data Governance
application has powerful functionality
to centralize management of material
master data in SAP Business Suite soft-
ware. The application enables companies
like yours to create, maintain, validate,
approve, replicate, and adapt material
master data. With SAP Master Data
Governance you can:
• Improve the consistency of material
master data across the entire business
network
• Document changes along the lifecycle
of a material to help ensure compliance
• Enable collaborative and traceable
material master data management
• Provide a single version of material
master data, for greater efficiency
and quality
Centralized, Integrated Governance
Without a sophisticated governance
solution, material master data is often
maintained in different systems, and a
variety of inefficient, error-prone, and
time-consuming transactions are re-
quired to perform data maintenance
tasks. Requests and reasons for new
or changed data are communicated
by phone or e-mail to specialists, who
must then gather further information
from other experts and stakeholders.
Follow-up processing must be triggered
manually. Approval processes with a
two-person rule – for example, business
decisions and transactions that require
sign-off from both the CEO and CFO –
cannot be accommodated. Furthermore,
planned changes are not visible to other
applications and users throughout the
organization.
SAP Master Data Governance enables
centralized governance of your material
master data, so you can create and
maintain data in a single location while
allowing the data to be safely and reli-
The SAP® Master Data
Governance application
centralizes the creation
and management of material
master data in SAP Business
Suite software. With the
application, companies can
maintain, validate, and dis-
tribute material master data;
improve master data accuracy
and consistency; and facili-
tate compliance.
Material Master Data Governance
for saP® Business suite
CONTROL DATA CREATION, QUALITY,
AND CONSISTENCY