SAP MDM - Staffing Issues

Hi, I'm currently in charge of recruiting for experience MDM people for a Global BW programme, although I'm struggling to find the people. I've been told by a very Senior BW guy that I will struggle and the only place to find the people is within SAP AG! Is he correct? Please help!

Hi Adam,
Since MDM 3.00 is currently in ramp-up, MDM knowledge is basically spread among SAP experts (SAP consultants and consultants from the involved software partners).
Therefore, I'd recommend you touch base with your local SAP contact person.
Kind regards,
Markus

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SRM Product / Material creation - Data flow to SAP MDM

Dear SAP friends,
I need your help with 2 issues. Thanks in advance for your collaboration.
Our client needs to create products and make them available to purchase almost immediately.
The scenario we had working for the last 2 years was: product creation in SRM (fields: short description / product category / measure unit), that would then be sent to SAP MDM for data enrichment, through BBP_CCM_TRANSFER_CATALOG (JOB running every 1 minute). This solution worked well for the last 2 years.
Recently, we are having some problems with this job. We noticed that, sometimes SRM doesn´t send the new products to MDM, and we think it´s a report performance problem. The report doesn´t maintain is normal behavior when executed every 1 minute.
SAP advice is to only run this report once a day. That would obviously require having a minimum time frame of 1 day between product creation and its availability (purchase), which isn´t acceptable in this client business model.
Question 1: Did anyone have a client with similar requirement? What was the implemented solution?
Because of report performance problems, we are running it (BBP_CCM_TRANSFER_CATALOG) every 5 minutes. It happens that sometimes, more than one catalog manager creates products in that time frame, and MDIS when importing the products to MDM, creates one unique workflow JOB making it impossible to assign it to both catalog managers for enrichment.
Question 2: How can we ensure that SRM sends only one product per xml files sent to XI / PI ? Or, perhaps, ensure that XI / PI splits the xml file sent from SRM into several files with one product each.
Thank you very much for your help in advance,
Best Regards,
João S. Carvalho

Hi meka
In product costing values flows as follows;
In product cost calculation raw material prices are costed which comes from material master in MM01
Product operations: i.e material BOM and master receipe or routings from PP module.From PP module operation costs comes in product costing.
In CO module: In Tcode KP26 we maintain activity\cost center planning for activities like machine hours, set up hours, labour hours etc.Here we define plan quantity and plan prices.
In Cost Sheet (KZS2) we maintain base cost elements & overheads and While order creation we calculate planned cost of that particular material.and then check the variances after getting actual cost of product.
Hope this will help you and if found useful assign points.
Let me know if you need more information.
Regards
Nilesh.

MDM Workflow Launch Problem version SAP MDM 7.1.2.59

Hi All,
I have installed SAP MDM 7.1.2.59 on SUSE Linux Server 64-bit m/c. And installed all Clients on Windows XP.
MS-Visio is also installed on my windows Box.
But when i open data manager i am seeing the workflow icon disabled. Also not able to add a workflow.
Any one knows what is the reason for this?
Please let me know if i need to add any specific patch at Server side.
Srinivas

Hey -
Checkout your visio setting
In MDM Data Manager, make sure the Workflows table is the current table. In the Records pane, select any workflow record.
In the Record Detail tab, then double-click on the Workflow property to open Microsoft Visio. Choose Tools > Options from the Visio main menu.Choose File Paths to open the File Paths dialog. In the File Paths dialog, set both Add-Ons and Start-Up to the folder where the Worklfow.vsl file is installed (the Data Manager installation folder, by default). Click OK to close the File Paths dialog.
also go through the links below for similar issue
for MS visio version
MS Visio version with MDM 7.1
MS Visio 2007 for MDM Workflow
MDM workflows and MS VISIO
Re: MDM workflow.
Hope that Help
thx
Deep

SRM 7.0 on NW 7.01 with SAP MDM 3.0 Catalog

Hello,
We are implementing the following Components:
SRM 7.0
MDM 7.1
BI
PI 7.0
Portal 7.0
We are currently live with ECC 5.
We will be using the SAP MDM Catalog along with SRM. We will be also implementing MDM to use for Master Data Cleansing. I wanted to know whether we will need to install the SAP MDM Catalog on the SRM7.0 system or can we install it on the MDM 7.1 system and then connect it to SRM?
Any pros/cons if we can use it as part of the MDM landscape?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Sheldon,
Great question. Technically speaking, you can certainly use your SRM-MDM repository on the main MDM 7.1 system. However, the following cons apply:
1. Even though it contains several core components from Netweaver (NW) MDM, SRM-MDM Catalog is being developped by SAP as a separate product. The patch releases between SRM-MDM and NW MDM are also not in synch (at least that's the current situation). Therefore, if you have both applications on one MDM system, you will have an undesired dependency related to applying new patches - which may lead to some issues.
2. Performance of one application will be impacted by the load on the other one.
3. Down time of one application will impact the users of the other one.
4. Upgrades will be more difficult to handle.
On my recent project, the direction from SAP was to use two different systems - one for SRM-MDM, one for NW MDM.
Cheers,
Serguei

SAP MDM Image Manager Generate Variant Failed MDS Error

Hello Experts,
Seek your valuable advice for this issue we are having with SAP MDM Image Manager.
When we try to generate variants , MDM displays an error saying " Could not generate variant 'xxxjpg[English [US]]' for image 'xx.jpg': MDM Server Error
Please advice.
Regards,
Aneesh.

I feel, you can achieve your requirement using MDM Java APIs.
Please check classes and methods in below mentioned Java API packages.
com.sap.mdm.ids
com.sap.mdm.blobs
com.sap.mdm.blobs.commands
Link for Java API documentation is :
http://help.sap.com/javadocs/MDM71/
Regards,
Shiv

Limitations in SAP MDM!!

Dear Experts,
Does anyone know about Limitations in SAP MDM!!
Could you please let me know in detail??
Kind Regards
Eva M

Hi Eva,
What type of limitations are you refering to.
One of the major limitations that we have faced in our implementation is if the file size is too big, may be cause of the number of records and the fields mapped out it gets very difficult to manually syndicate the file. If you have any other specific issues could help on that.
In addition some general issue are
Sharing of Lookup tables (e.g. country) across repositories not supported. Linking of objects residing in 2 repositories is not supported with SAP NetWeaverMDM 5.5, natively.Workarounds via the integration into SAP NetWeaver Portal
Use of u201Ceventing technologyu201D mapping of key fields and match of respective values Not sufficient for each and every use case
There is no Migration options. One needs to manually make the changes right from development through to the production environment.
there are lots of limitations on Qualified Lookups in MDM 5.5 and also in MDM 7.1....
1) Can't write Assignments...
2) Failed validation won't specify which qualified link has failed.
3) Compare records won't show link wise comparison of qualified links.
4) Can't start qualified link level workflows.
5) Role level constraints not applicable for Qualified lookup and tables referencing from QL directly or indirectly.
6) Qualified link level check-in check-out operations are not possible.
7) Qualified link level unique constraints are not possible (this becomes pain if links get duplicated by mistake)
8) Duplication of QL link is not allowed in data manager (for copying Qualifier values in new Qualified link).
9) Tuple is replacement for qualified lookup, but its more restrictive than QL (validation are not allowed on multivalued tuple).
One Major limitation that was there in 5.5 was we could only maintain a single Maintable. 7.1 solves that problem.
The following link gives some good examples:
http://www.it-director.com/technology/data_mgmt/content.php?cid=10837
Do let me know in case you need more help or if i was able to help answer your question

Keyword search is not functioning at SAP MDM catalgue

Hi
W e are facing issue in keyword search at SAP MDM catalog.
Normally we used to search by the description of catalog items like key pad, LCD, charger e.t.c, and system display list of material available at catalog with vendor and price details.
Now we are facing issue that as soon as we provide the description and click on search there is no result at all
But if we click reset search all the available catalog items are getting displayed.
The issue is if provide one particular item and click on search we are not getting list even though the catalog item has been maintained and available at MDM.
Kindly through some light on this issue to explore and get suitable solution.
With thanks and regards
Vijayakumar .G

Hi,
If you want to perform keyword search then first you have to check if description field as you mentioned in MDM is Set to property Keyword = Stemmer.
and if it is keyword enabled then try with asterik operator e.g. *LCD and see if you are getting the result.
For more info please follow the thread below:
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2115021
Regards,
Neethu Joy
Edited by: Neethu joy on Feb 23, 2012 11:28 AM

SAP MDM User Inactivity

Dear SAP Experts :-)
I need your help
Can you please tell me if SAP MDM has the functionality to -
1 - delete user ID's from the system once inactive ?
2 - review user accoutns based on inactivity?
3 - show last date logged onto SAP in a simple way rather than viewing hundreds of files?
Thanks!!!!
Jo

Hi,
1) Yes you can delete user from MDM through console Repository->Admin->Users right click on user and delete.
Note: you need admin access to delete user and the user should not be used in workflow.
2) You can view user activity from console Repository->Admin->Connections, where you can see all the user logged on to repository with last Active time.
3) For the third issue you can consult your basis team.
Regards,

Using the Open Catalog Interface (OCI) between SAP-ECC 6.0 and SAP-MDM

Hello ASUG Community.
I'm working on an SAP-MDM project where we will configure the OCI interface between SAP-ECC 6.0 and SAP-MDM. The business requirement will be to punch out to SAP-MDM's catalog from SAP-ECC for expensed items (e.g., no material master record exists in SAP-ECC).
The data that will be returned to SAP-ECC will be purchase price info, material group, short text, & our global SAP-MDM item number.
The question I've been trying to design around is "where to store the SAP-MDM item number"?
I've looked into creating a custom filed on EKPO but now feel that a configured text field will be the best solution from an SAP-ECC point of view (less effort on the SAP-ECC side from a development perspective, no need to regenerate the EKPO table, etc.).
The question I'd like to pose to ASUG is.... Does anyone have experience or an opinion to offer using this functionality? It seems that I will have to code in a user exit or BAdi to insure that the SAP-MDM item numbers are returned to the appropriate text field on my POu2019s. Or can this be done using the standard OCI functionality?
I found OSS note 1347656 which references BADI "ME_CATALOG_INTERFACE" but I'm not sure if this right path to go down or if this would be the correct place to code non-conforming OCI mapping requiremetns.
Any insight would be most appreciated.
Thanks. Sincerely,
Rich Wortmann

I would suggest you create a new field for this as you may require thois going forward for reporting as well. Text fields are difficult to report.
Sorry not sure about the BADI to use.

Help Required -- Can we use SQL Query to READ data from SAP MDM Tables

Hi All,
Please help.........
Can we use SQL Query to READ(No Creation/Updation/Deletion just Read) Data from SAP MDM tables directly, without using MDM Syndicator.
Or direct SQL access to SAP MDM tables is not possible. Only through MDM Syndicator can we export data.
Thanks in Advance
Regards

All the tables you create in Repository comes under A2i_CM_Tables in Database named as your repository name. So the tables names are fields of table A2i_CM_Tables. Now i tried it but cant make it.
Now, I dont think its possible to extract all fields in tables and there values using select query. May be pure sql guy can do that or not.
But there is no relation of data extraction and syndicator. Data is viewed in Data Manager. and you can also store data in a file from DM also.
BR,
Alok

SAP MDM Joining tables in console? Help needed.

Hi,
I am placed in SAP MDM Project.
Currently, we have an unique requirement.
We, have to join two tables of SAP MDM Console in an unique field
named(House No and PO Code).
Actually, we have a main table named Business Partner and a Flat table
named Address.
Now, we have a field named House No and PO Code(Business Partner) which I have made as unique.
Also, the Field named House No and PO Code(Address) is unique.
Now, my colleague suggested if we can make remote key mapping at the time of import
it will automatically populate the address data for each individual.
But it is not true. Remote Key mapping is a different concept.
If Remote key is mapped with any field of the Main table.
It will show remote key mapping for that field with a remote system.
When data is syndicated back after modification same data is reflected in that remote system.
Only thing that we can do is that make House No and PO Code (Business Partner) as Lookup(Flat) field and it is mapped with the Flat table Address.
Now, the SAP MDM Data Operator needs to select the address manually from say 10,000 address records for a person George Smith in main table(Business Partner).
No other way round.
Please suggest if there is any other way.
Thanks and Regards
Kaushik Banerjee

I am closing it.

Error during the installation of ORACLE 10g for SAP MDM 5.5

Hi all,
I am installing ORACLE 10g on a SUSE LES 9 for a future MDM 5.5 system. While I launch the Installer I get the following error:
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2007-09-26_07-11-46AM. Please wait ...oracle@mucsapt2:/home/lrougkal/OraDb10g/database> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2007-09-26_07-11-46AM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
        at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
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I have installed all the required packages from SUSE :
binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-32.10
gcc-3.3.3-43.41
gcc-c++-3.3.3-43.41
glibc-2.3.3-98.61
gnome-libs-1.4.1.7-671.1
libstdc++-3.3.3-43.41
libstdc++-devel-3.3.3-43.41
make-3.80-184.1
pdksh-5.2.14-780.7
sysstat-5.0.1-35.7
xscreensaver-4.16-2.6
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Loukas

Hi Elmar,
I have checked the packages and the XFree86-libs-4.3.99 is not installed. I guess I will have to install it.
Now your question about oracle user. I am not sure if you have performed any SAP MDM installation with ORACLE RDBMS but the installation guide is totally different than the normal SAP inst guides. Indeed someone needs to install separately SAP MDM and ORACLE and in my installation I do not install NetWeaver since it is not mandatory for the testing phase of the project. You can have a look at the guide (it is very poor -no reference to ORACLE details):
https://websmp105.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000271882007E
So the official ORACLE inst gudie says to install the ORACLE software with the oracle user.
Rgds,
Louka

Data Import from SAP R/3 to SAP MDM 7.1 without SAP PI

Hi All,
I have a requirement to import Vendor Master data from SAP R/3 to SAP MDM 7.1 on a regular basis. What are the Options available for data transfer between these two systems without any middleware(like SAP PI,etc). I checked the SAP Documentation and found the scenarios with SAP PI as middleware.
I have few very basic ideas:
1) Will there be any way for SAP MDM to pick a file from certain location and load the data..
2) Shall I use MDM ABAP API to write a program to connect to MDM Repository and schedule this at regular intervals to achieve the data transfer.
Pls suggest the best design approach..
Thanks in advance.

1) Will there be any way for SAP MDM to pick a file from certain location and load the data..
ANS : No, MDM will not pick up the file, file can be pick up from MDM Inbound folder and send from outbound folder for automize process and for MDM manual Process you can pick up and send file to local desktop, network shared path
2) Shall I use MDM ABAP API to write a program to connect to MDM Repository and schedule this at regular intervals to achieve the data transfer.
ANS : require to write code at ABAP side
so ABAP program will pick or send data file to MDM folder
Note following point
1. Require to write ABAP Program which will pick or send data file to MDM outbound / Inbound folder
2. Require to do some technical setting for ABAP program at SAP side, technical person will help regarding this matter
Note : There are many disadvantage and time consuming procss, monitoring file and it is not advisable to go without any intermidiate software for e.g PI, Tibco
Thanks,
Jignesh Patel

SAP MDM Vendor email addresses are not in order when sent to SAP R/3

Hi Experts,
We were trying to maintain vendor email addresses in this order in SAP MDM:
E-mail address: massupa@nexus
Sequence Number: 001
E-mail address: win@nexus
Sequence Number: 002
E-mail address: satita@nexus
Sequence Number: 003
But when saving the record, its order get mixed up like below: (I believe it was arranged alphabetically automatically---> is this the standard MDM functionality?!)
E-mail address: massupa@nexus
Sequence Number: 001
E-mail address: satita@nexus
Sequence Number: 003
E-mail address: win@nexus
Sequence Number: 002
When it gets syndicated to ECC, its order was maintained incorrectly with incorrect IDs:
E-mail address             ID
massupa@nexus        001
satita@nexus              002   -
> should be 003
win@nexus                 003 -
> should be 002
we checked both the XML Files and the IDOC and found that it has the same order maintained in SAP MDM
massupa@nexus        001
satita@nexus              003
win@nexus                 002
But how come the IDs were changed in R/3?
Many thanks in advance!

Hi Mike,
As per your requirement, i feel that for ID either you can create a new field say sequence ID in this e-mail addresses table of MDM and thus can syndicate it or can also use ID as key using remote key concept. I mean for this e-mail addresses table, you can set property Key mapping = yes in MDM Console and thus can use this IDs as key for this email address e.g. for massupa@nexus you can save ID as Key.
So during syndication, map this field with target IDOC structure field and I mean Remote Key under e-mail addresses table with IDOC ID target field. In this way you can have correct IDs with their corresponding email addresses.
Kindly let me know if you are looking for something else.
Regards,
Mandeep Saini

Brief discussion on SAP XI and its' Integration with SAP MDM.

Hi,
I have never worked on SAP XI.
I am discussing it on brief, please give your valuable replies.
SAP XI consists of System Landascape Directory(SLD).
SLD Consists of Business System and Techinical System.
Technical System contains all information about the software
component. The Business System consists of Inbound and Outbound Business
System which are used as logical names for data transfer.
There is communication Channel for Receiver and Sender Business System and n agreement
is signed between Sender and Receiver.
Outbound Interface defined for Business System Outbound and Techical System associated
with the Business System,
Inbound Interface defined for Business System Inbound and Techical System associated
with the Business System.
In SAP NetWeaver XI Integration Directory, we have defined the Integration Scenarios,
Actions, Interface Objects, Mapping Objects, Adapters Objects.
Mapping Object defines the Structure and Value Mapping.
Adapter Objects defines the Adapter program which implements RFC Adapter, FTP Adapter logic.
FTP Adapter is used for XI-MDM Communication.
RFC Adapter is used for XI-ECC Communication.
Integration Repository: Both Outbound and Inbound Interfaces are Mapped with Value mapping and
Structure Mapping inside Integration Repository.
The File Adapter takes the File from the Outbound port of MDM System
and sends it as IDOC to Receiver Business System.
Value Mapping must be done between Sender and Receiver interfaces.
Value Mapping is done by XSLT or Java based program.
SAP NetWeaver XI Integration Server at runtime:
Message Split, Interface Determination, Receiver Identifaction, Mapping, Techincal Routing
and Call Adapter Proccess are done.
In SAP XI 3.0 and MDM 5.5:
Step 1: Create busines system as service.
Step 2: Create communication channel for each business service. If the system can communicate
through different channels, then create all possible channel types if necessary.
Step 3: Create receiver agreement between the systems.
Step 4: Interface determination:
- Here you see for the first time the software component mentioned;
there are some special requirements regarding this software component in relation to the customizing ID mapping.
- To modify this software component, the customer needs to copy the SAP standard delivered software component
into its own namespace. The customer is able to modify to create archives
for the customized ID mapping.
Receiver determination.
Configure an FTP Server on the MDS.
Create a send folder for outbound messages using outbound port(s) for
remote systems(s).
Create receive folder inbound messages using inbound port(s) for remote systems.
This ia all about concept of SAP XI Infractsture and its' Integration with SAP MDM 5.5.
Regards
Kaushik Banerjee

Hi Kaushik,
You must be aware of File types that MDM Import Manager can Import i.e. we have XML, Excel etc. Now there are two transactions to extract data from R3
1. MDMGX -
         - For lookup table extraction
         - Output in XML format which MDM can import without using XI.
          - FTP can be configured to put the file in the desired folder which will be then picked by Import Server.
2. MDM_CLNT_EXTR -
          - For Main table records.
          - Output is in Idoc format which MDM doesn't understand hence we need XI in between which converts Idoc file received from R3 into XML which can then be imported using Import Manager or Import Server. For this we need to implement XI Scenario that consists of Source System, Receiver System, Type of Data etc.
Just a basic understanding...
Regards,
Jitesh Talreja

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