SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (MDM)

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1 SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (MDM) Product Information Management with MDM SAP NetWeaver Product Management, SAP AG July 2009

2 Agenda 1. What is Product Information Management (PIM) 1.1. Definition and Business Drivers 1.2. SAP s Take and Positioning 2. PIM Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver MDM 2.1. Product Data Management 2.2. Data Outbound Channels 3. Print Publishing: Overview and Outlook 4. Summary

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4 Definition Product Information Management or PIM refers to processes and technologies focused on centrally managing information about products, with a focus on the data required to market and sell the products through one or more distribution channels. A central set of product data can be used to feed consistent, accurate and up-to-date information to multiple output media such as web sites, print catalogs, ERP systems, and electronic data feeds to trading partners. PIM systems generally need to support multiple geographic locations, multi-lingual data, and maintenance and modification of product information within a centralized catalog to provide consistently accurate information to multiple channels in a cost-effective manner.

5 Product Information Management One view of product information anytime anywhere 1038-GID Parts Publish GEAR A124K Parts GEAR BR-2K Gears SPIDER GEAR Complex product and relationship management Key Mapping management Print/web publishing including layout and production

6 Drivers for Product Information Management Product Data Management (High Tech) Maintaining a single part master code costs an average of $1000 per year. For a company with 10,000 part masters, 10% duplicate data, and 10 connected systems, each of which costs $50k per year to connect, the total savings potential is at least $1.5 million per year. Publication (Industrial Catalogs) An industrial catalog with 3000 pages, 200,000 items, and a 65-person production staff costs about $1 million to layout and $30 to print for each copy. For a catalog published once a year, the savings are between $1 million and $2 million.

7 PIM Requirements Objectives for a product catalog and publishing system Store and structure rich product data content Create a classification taxonomy with category-specific attributes Store and manage product relationship information Store images and unstructured content Import raw data from a variety of sources Maintain data integrity Syndicate and publish content to a variety of formats Obtain a high performance when searching and locating products in a variety of ways, even in very large catalogs containing millions of products. Provide a user-friendly application whose features are comprehensive and intuitive to use.

8 Master Data Management Cycle with Special Focus on Product Information Management Organize Model product repository Maintain taxonomies and attributes Support exchange formats and classification systems (BMEcat, UNSPSC etc.) Publish and syndicate Organize SAP NetWeaver MDM Optimize Optimize De-duplicate Control key mapping Compare records Edit records Enrich records Publish and syndicate Define product families Define publication layout Transfer to Adobe InDesign or Web shop Populate client systems Enable buy-side/sell-side Import and integrate Import and integrate XML, Excel, Access, ODBC, Oracle, SQL, Manual and automated field mapping

10 Import Product Data Data Mapping/Record Matching

11 Key Capabilities to Manage Product Content Complex Data Modeling Elements Tables and Fields Categories and Attributes Hierarchies

12 Key Capabilities to Manage Product Content Support for multi-object repositories Multiple business objects (=main tables) can reside in one and the same repository E.g. supplier and product data can be stored in one repository Records of different main tables can reference each other (new field type Lookup [Main] ) E.g. a supplier can be related to several products Main tables can share the same customizing/lookup tables E.g. the main tables customers and suppliers can be connected to the table countries in order to ensure consistent information about the country of origin of both business partners Support for nested structures Composite data type tuple allows modeling of nested structures E.g. product capacity information depending on plant and location or multiple addresses of a business partner can hold multiple phone numbers SAP 2008 / Page 12

13 Key Capabilities to Manage Product Content Classification Support Supports external and internal classifications SAP CRM, SAP SRM, SAP R/3 categories/hierarchies eclass UNSPSC Assignment of product records to multiple classes (especially within the same class of SAP R/3) Assignment of product records to inner node classes in SAP R/3 (hierarchy fields) Supports standard catalog data exchange formats like BMEcat

14 Key Capabilities to Manage Product Content Quick Data Access/Multi-Dimensional Search

15 Key Capabilities to Manage Product Content Data Management Workflow Enables the orchestration of parallel and sequential activities at the data management level, including user tasks, validations and approvals User-friendly design-time environment allows quick and easy creation and manipulation, even by end users Groups of records can be moved through the workflow at runtime as logical packages, providing quick access to the relevant data Flexible agent assignment based on users or roles Embedded validations for data quality checks at any time in the process

16 Key Capabilities to Manage Product Content Mass maintenance Validations Updates Interactive record comparison Rules-based matching/key mapping Data enrichment Digital asset management PartsRiver, Inc. Focusing on product master data; industry-specific data classification services Product masks Data syndication/cross-media publishing

17 Access Option: Portal or UI clients SAP NetWeaver MDM allows you to Access your central product repository using SAP Portal to create, read, update, or delete data Use the SAP Data Manager as a data steward s fully administrative environment for data processing

18 Outbound Channels Web Web publishing APIs to provide Web access to repository For use in a non-sap environment MDM Print Syndication Print Publishing MDM Publisher, DTP-Plug-in DTP Finalization Print APIs for third party publishing Syndication MDM Syndicator Process Integration OCI Open Catalog Interface Standard interface to connect SAP Business Suite applications (e.g. SAP SRM) Portal-based iview or Web Dynpro-based UI

19 Web Publishing (APIs) APIs to retrieve repository data and expose it as a Web application Visit

20 Print Publishing From Table View to Final Pages Partitioning Promotion / demotion Pivots Styles Reordering Manual adjustments Desktop Publishing Integration

21 Syndication Record Selection and Target Determination Client system

22 SAP Open Catalog Interface Communication between SAP system and catalog (MDM repository) iviews to integrate MDM repository with SAP NetWeaver Portal Portal-independent Web Dynpro-based UI OCI to enable shopping mode SRM-MDM Catalog

24 MDM Publisher Creating Complex Page Layouts for Print Catalogs Import Product Data Consolidate Product Data Enable Catalog Publishing Define Print Layout Transfer to DTP Manual import Automated import Field and value mapping Validate Enrich De-duplicate Manage images Define families (catalog partitioning) Create default layouts Assign style to fields and attributes Create publication structure Finalize composition Create publication layouts and styles

25 Print Process: Main Steps 1/6 MDM Console Family Field Settings Family Field Determines initial partitioning of products.

26 Print Process: Main Steps 2/6 MDM Data Manager Family Mode Family Results Pane Family Hierarchy Pane Family Partitioning Tab

27 Print Process: Main Steps 3/6 MDM Publisher Family Hierarchy Family Hierarchy Pane

28 Print Process: Main Steps 4/6 MDM Publisher Publication Hierarchy Publication Hierarchy Pane Families Sources Pane

29 Print Process: Main Steps 5/6 MDM Publisher - Spread Editor Section/ Page Thumbnail Hierarchy Pane Spread Editor Pane Master Pages Pane Template Sources Pane Measurements Palette

30 Print Process: Main Steps 6/6 MDM Adobe InDesign Plug-in MDM InDesign Plug-in

31 Consolidated Data for Print Publications Printed catalogs made easy Publishing features include: Clean data basis By seamlessly integrating with MDM repository Leverage MDM data quality features Semi-automation in data publishing Predefined output and page layout Page maximization Creative design Manual intervention for layout definition and adjustments Adobe InDesign Plug-in DTP Finalization Open interface to third-party publishing software MDM Clean data Automation Creative Design 3rd party publishing SW 3rd party publishing SW Final DTP Adobe InDesign

32 MDM Publisher - Key MDM 7.1 Features Publisher Java API To further leverage XML print output based on MDM Publisher settings (e.g. for further use in 3rd party Web publishing) To provide the foundation for comprehensive print publishing alternatives (connect to 3 rd party publishing software) Copy/paste properties from one node to another Enables copy/paste of node properties (item properties, table layout, item ordering, etc.), on a granular level from one family/publication node to another and/or to parent nodes/publication root Free-form Styling Possibility to directly access each text object on spread to make character style edits/overrides to individual objects Record Set Publications Possibility to select random records to display in a single presentation In addition, these record-set presentations may be sequenced in accordance with an existing hierarchy which is different than the look-ups used in partitioning the family hierarchy Image Links Palette Pane providing the user with information about images used in each presentation Information provided is the same as listed in the images table in MDM Data Manager Percentage Field in Measurements Palette Setting an exact percentage for decreasing or increasing the size of a particular image on the spread Refresh Reconciliation Enhancing DTP Refresh Features Specifically applies when deleted and purged objects are regenerated on the spread Ensures reliable refreshing of these objects in the DTP SAP 2007 / Page 32

33 MDM Publisher - Key MDM 7.1 Features Publisher Java API Publisher Java API Allows the user to follow some basic scenarios for setting and/or retrieving layout properties and existing publication information. The final output for this is XML which is based on publication information existing within MDM Publisher. Enables non-mdm Publisher based publication creation using third party software. Output channel MDM Publisher API XML Output channel Output channel MDM API XML 3rd Party Publishing SW SAP 2007 / Page 33

34 MDM Publisher - Key MDM 7.1 Features Copy/paste properties from one node to another Enables copy/paste of node properties (item properties, table layout, item ordering, etc.), on a granular level from one family/publication node to another and/or to parent nodes/publication root SAP 2007 / Page 34

35 MDM Publisher - Key MDM 7.1 Features Free-form Styling Possibility to directly access each text object on spread to make character style edits/overrides to individual objects SAP 2007 / Page 35

36 MDM Publisher - Key MDM 7.1 Features Record Set Publications Possibility to select random records to display in a single presentation In addition, these record-set presentations may be sequenced in accordance with an existing hierarchy which is different than the look-ups used in partitioning the family hierarchy SAP 2007 / Page 36

37 MDM Publisher - Key MDM 7.1 Features Image Links Palette Pane providing the user with information about images used in each presentation Information provided is the same as listed in the images table in MDM Data Manager SAP 2007 / Page 37

38 MDM Publisher - Key MDM 7.1 Features Percentage Field in Measurements Palette Setting an exact percentage for decreasing or increasing the size of a particular image on the spread SAP 2007 / Page 38

40 Product Information Management Checklist Essential Capabilities SAP NetWeaver MDM Centralized repository Flexible repository schema and taxonomy editing Rich product content (parametric data, product relationships, etc.) Intelligent image management Integrated product search engine (with performance acceleration) Powerful aggregation and cleansing Cross-media publishing (including both Web and print) Syndication and synchronization Enterprise integration (APIs) Integrated workflow and validation engine Horizontal applicability (sell-side, buy-side, etc.) Role-based security and user rights management (including LDAP) Cross-platform compatibility (O/S, DBMS, API)

41 Summary SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management Facilitates flexible product information management For use in SAP and non-sap environments Featuring multi-channel publication (e.g. syndication, electronic catalogs, print catalogs) Offering a complete end-to-end solution from data input, data processing and data output Is a player in the print market Featuring own print solution and ability to integrate 3rd party offerings Relevant Links: SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Information on SDN ( ebook Featuring Preview of Print Publishing with SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 ( ebook Featuring Print Publishing Novelties with SAP NetWeaver MDM 5.5 SP6 Patch 1 ( How-to Guides on Print Publishing Part one ( Part two (

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