MDG200 – SAP Master Data Governance: Configuration and Customizing — Lesson 3: Validations, Derivations, Business Rules Framework Plus, Duplicate Checks, Search, and Data Quality

Learning Objectives

• Explain the SAP structures, data, settings, roles, and dependencies governing MDG validation and data-quality rules.
• Perform and validate derivations, duplicate checks, and search behavior using reviewable system evidence.
• Evaluate the condition where a change request is approved but downstream systems receive incomplete data because entity modeling, workflow steps, validation timing, and replication filters are not aligned and select proportionate corrective action.

Detailed Topics

• Validations applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Derivations applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Business Rules Framework Plus applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Duplicate Checks applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Search applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• and Data Quality applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces a master-data program configuring controlled creation and change processes for governed business objects. The walkthrough connects navigation, configuration or process logic, system messages, and evidence captured in the MDG200 configuration, workflow, validation, and replication dossier. It also tests the exception where a change request is approved but downstream systems receive incomplete data because entity modeling, workflow steps, validation timing, and replication filters are not aligned.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled SAP exercise covering Validations, Derivations, Business Rules Framework Plus, Duplicate Checks, Search, and Data Quality and preserve the verified result in the MDG200 configuration, workflow, validation, and replication dossier.

1. Confirm scope, prerequisites, master data, roles, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
2. Execute the workflow while recording settings, transactions, outputs, and system messages.
3. Test normal behavior, one boundary condition, and the stated exception.
4. Document corrections, evidence, ownership, retest criteria, and handover actions.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which object, rule, setting, or process step most strongly influences MDG validation and data-quality rules.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain business, technical, control, and support trade-offs.
• Determine how the MDG200 configuration, workflow, validation, and replication dossier should be approved, retained, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start where expected SAP behavior first differs from the observed result. Check master data, configuration sequence, authorization, integration, status, and transaction evidence separately. Treat “a change request is approved but downstream systems receive incomplete data because entity modeling, workflow steps, validation timing, and replication filters are not aligned” as a hypothesis until system settings, logs, documents, and outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required SAP structures, master data, roles, settings, and dependencies are present.
• The MDG200 configuration, workflow, validation, and replication dossier connects each conclusion to objective, reviewable evidence.
• Normal processing, the boundary condition, integration behavior, and exception were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Validations, Derivations, Business Rules Framework Plus, Duplicate Checks, Search, and Data Quality, explain the resulting SAP behavior, and defend the outcome through the MDG200 configuration, workflow, validation, and replication dossier.