Workflow for Maintenance of records

What is the best practice for MDM workflows for Product Master data maintenance? This is specifically about manual vs automatic workflow trigger.
Automatic Trigger - As and when record change, workflow trigger. No Need for people to go manually and initiate the workflow. Easy for user(s) to maintain. But with this, we will loose the functionality (Compare from original Records) as records change happen before trigger. We never know what changes made in user friendly manner.
Manual Trigger - Item needs to be attached manually to maintenance workflow. User needs to know about this step and have this additional work. This will not work, if somebody is changing record on portal. But this way, we will use the functionality for (Compare from original records) as record change happen after workflow trigger.
Any suggestion?

Hi Rt,
If you compare Automatic Importing to Manual importing.
Automatic will be the prefered option as any business process will prefer Automation over manual due to serveral reasons some of them being lesser manual error,Less time better efficiency etc.
If you have a set of say 1 million records and in a delta import process say 10000 records gets changed.If you wish to run a maintainence workflow on these 10000 records mnaully will be a hectic and tedious task.
On the other hand if you have set the trigger to automatic trigger action for record update.Automatically these updated records will move to the workflow.
If you really wnat to keep a track of the updated records you can try using one of the below strategies:
- Enable change tracking wherein you will be able to view the old value and new valueof the changed records.
Kindly refer the below link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/45/c7b20339ee570ae10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm (change tracker)
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/45/c87d0243e56f75e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm (Change Tracker Configuration)
- Use a time stamp field which will get updated everytime a records gets modified for a particular field.
Hope It Helped
Thanks & Regards
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