MDM Support Scope

Hi Friends,
I am new to MDM and I need some basic information regarding SAP MDM. I need some brief information about the types of Issues ( categorization ) which a customer can face after an MDM implementation and what is the overall scope of MDM Support Project ?
any help in this regard will be highly appreciated. Thanks !
Regards,
Gaurav

Hmmm too general question about MDM. I would suggest to explore MDM as first step to get into it:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmdm71/helpdata/en/43/D7AED5058201B4E10000000A11466F/frameset.htm

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https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700004121872006E > Reference Documentation.
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If available what's the latest SP & Ehp available for MDM 5.5?
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hi,
MDM is emerging in 2008, you will have good scope as an XI consultant.
you will find lot of documentation in help.sap.com, it is the bible for MDM.
follow the links for further information:
SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM) - EIM - SAP Developer Network(This web-site gives introduction to MDM, Master Data Operations, Master Data Integration,Master Data Quality )
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/43/D7AED5058201B4E10000000A11466F/frameset.htm
/people/nitzan.levi/blog/2005/06/20/the-story-of-mdm55
/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/06/14/worlds-fastest-and-shortest-introduction-to-netweaver-mdm-55
/people/ravikumar.allampallam/blog/2005/09/06/mdm-client-content-manager--different-modes
http://www.sapnetweavermagazine.com/archive/Volume_03_(2007)/Issue_02_(Spring)/v3i2a12.cfm?session=
http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/pdf/BWP_SB_Data_Unification.pdf
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9018dc62-23a8-2910-b7ae-9023670c3a53
MDM on help.sap.com
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/43/D7AED5058201B4E10000000A11466F/frameset.htm
SAP mdm how to guides:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/5024a59a-4276-2910-7580-f52eb789194b [original link is broken]
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1)https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/60559952-ff62-2910-49a5-b4fb8e94f167
2 ) http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0a/5f723bc34bf17ee10000000a114084/content.htm
3)http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/43/D7AED5058201B4E10000000A11466F/frameset.htm
http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&q=SAPMDMlive+implementation&btnG=Search .
hope this may help you,
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MDM for Managing Master data for PP & QM Modules

We have studied the various offerings of SAP MDM for Materials, Suppliers, Financials
These are definitely areas where we would like to automate using MDM and thereby improve Quality, Turn around Time and eliminate errors, redundancy etc.
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The main pain areas in terms of Master data have been in PP and QM Modules
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R&D scientists are not so familiar with SAP and SAP Settings
Process Package is usually a simple document- defining specific quantities of the different components required to produce a Specific quantity of a Product and also descibles the procedure of the entire production process, but when it translates into a Recipe and Bom- different tables in SAP come into play.
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R&D scientists are not so familiar with SAP and SAP Settings
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Tks

Hi Hari,
If I understand correctly,you are doing a feasibility study about and trying to find out if standard offering in SAP MDM supports your requirement of linking the master data and R&D documents.
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Database is Oracle 10.2 (corresponding Oracle client is used), installed on the same server.
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- are others (if they exist experiencing the same problems on AIX 5.3 ?
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Hello,
we have finally made some progress on this issue.
Basically, we suffered from a combination of :
- wrong usage of the product
- probably shaky exception handling in the AIX version
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--- extract from the SAP reply -
The core dump shows a crash in recalculating the family tree after the
import. Family tree is being used only to create printed catalogs (which require the publisher and an additional license).
1) Do you have any value in the categories table?
2) Does the MDM server crash if you cancel the automatic family tree
recalculation in the import map, and answer "no" in the dialog box which asks to recalculate the family tree?
3) Do you intend to create a printed catalog?
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the recalculation of the family tree should not take place at all. In
this case the family table could/should be deleted. And this should not
reoccur.
end extract -
After we deleted this family table, the tests are running stable.
It's a pity that the program does not 'die' in a more elegant way or gives some understandable indication on what is going wrong.
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I try to create Named Searches On the SRM-MDM Catalog.
I created named searches and assigned each named search do CATALOG_ID.
I assigned the relevant CATALOG_ID to the organizational unit in the organizational stracture.
In the Search UI the user sees the link to the named search I assigned, but he still see all the Items and not only the items I assigned to the named search.
I guess I did not assign the items I picked properly.
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u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Area ( Logical Grouping like SNOP) level
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u2022     Ability to add an approver/subscriber to any step of the entire approval process
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u2022     Ability to provide Historical Reports to identify how tool is used and highlight areas with most frequent changes
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u2022     Ability to Support MultiLanguage
u2022     Ability to provide Labels/Legends in Multilanguage
u2022
u2022     Business Rules to Validate Data

Hello mkhairi
For more of your question answer -YES
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SAP MDM has JAVA,ABAP, COM, .NET(ver.7.1) API and you can use it for custom development
SAP MDM has own web service for work with data in repository
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SAP MDM has own workflow integrated with SAP NetWeaver Portal trough UWL
SAP MDM has application for web publishing
and many many other functionality from your list
more about SAP MDM you can read here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmdm71/helpdata/en/index.htm
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we have requirement to implement SAP MDM. Customer has 20 million entries for its customer data. Can MDM support this? I heard maximum MDM can handle only 6 millions entries, above that it cannot work.
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Hi Dony,
I think you need to do sizing as per number of records.
https://websmp109.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700001921872008E
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I Dont see any list of Image types that MDM Accepts mentioned in in DM Complete reference!!!!
Does anyone see some SAP Link??
We are not creating Image variants.
we will just upload a bunch of Images vai data manager to a Data group.
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