Difference between Consolidation, Harmonization and Central master data man

[Former Member]

Hi ..Expertise

Consolidation is use to identify duplicate records and merge them into one record.

Harmonization is the process of pushing the new cleansed data back out to your partner systems.

Central master data management means you create records within MDM and then you distribute (Syndicate) this centrally created data to your Remote Systems.

My Question is her after Consolidation both Harmonization and Central master data management is doing the same thing i.e. sending the clean data to the other system. What is the difference between these two? Please explain me with an example or scenario..

[Former Member]

Hi Yugandhar,

This is a good question and there had been a debate for quite some time but you need to understand the bigger picture that CMDM is implicable where a lot of systems are involved in the landscape and the emphasis is on the creation getting done at a central place .

In CMDM only that information will be considered that will be common to all the satellite sysytems(transactional systems) and globally maintained at the central place.

For eg . if Material Master is considered the Basic Data 1 Basic data2 and the classification fields may be considered only and not all the fields in a matrerial master coz these information is maintained at client level.This will constitue the Global General Information.

For more clearance on this matter and landscape clarification, please go through the below link by Klaus David.

[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/20c5eb85-f070-2910-6e9f-c8c97cb93638]

I hope this will help.

Regards

Deepankar