Consolidation
Consolidation in SAP Master Data Governance covers the processes and tooling used to identify, cleanse, and merge duplicate or fragmented master data records (business partners, customers, vendors, materials) that have accumulated across systems or over time. It includes match rules, scoring, best-record survivorship, and workflow-driven review before data is confirmed as the single governed version.
Overview
Consolidation in SAP Master Data Governance covers the processes and tooling used to identify, cleanse, and merge duplicate or fragmented master data records (business partners, customers, vendors, materials) that have accumulated across systems or over time. It includes match rules, scoring, best-record survivorship, and workflow-driven review before data is confirmed as the single governed version.
Lessons in this topic
- Configuring the Consolidation Process: Matching, Best Record Rules, and Steward ReviewLearn how a consolidation cycle is structured end to end, from loading source data through match rule configuration, best record survivorship logic, steward review, and controlled release of the cleansed data.
- Executing Match, Merge, and Best-Record Survivorship in ConsolidationLearn how consolidation results in candidate match groups are reviewed, merged, and resolved into a single best record, and how survivorship rules and manual steward decisions interact with governance workflow.
- Why Consolidation Exists in SAP MDG: Business Case and Core ConceptsUnderstand the business problem consolidation solves in MDG, the difference between consolidation and central governance, and the core building blocks: source systems, match rules, and best record.
- Understanding Consolidation in MDG: Why Duplicate and Fragmented Data ExistsAn introduction to why master data consolidation is needed in MDG, what business and technical problems it solves, and how it differs from ongoing central governance.
- Configuring Match Rules, Scoring, and Best-Record Survivorship for ConsolidationA practical walkthrough of how match rules, similarity scoring, and best-record survivorship decisions are configured and executed in an MDG consolidation process.
- Match, Merge and Survivorship Rules in MDG Consolidation ProcessingExplains how MDG consolidation processing uses match rules, merge/group decisions, and survivorship (best record) logic to turn multiple candidate source records into a single trusted golden record, and how consultants configure and validate this flow.