Leveraging SAP MDG for Master Data Consolidation

A consumer healthcare company was looking to consolidate and harmonize financial, vendor, customer, and material master data while updating the its existing integration to SAP S/4HANA Central Finance (cFin). The client engages in the acquisition, manufacturing, and sale of consumer healthcare products, generic prescription drugs, and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), primarily in the United States, from its base in Ireland. In this case study, we unpack how the client leveraged SAP MDG for master data consolidation.

The company was facing multiple inefficient manual processes, antiquated systems, lack of data accuracy and workarounds, and dependence on institutional knowledge due to a lack of process documentation and understanding. These issues impacted the client in several ways, including the inability to scale for growth, the lack of flexibility and speed, difficulty in delivering innovation, and delayed decision-making and reporting. The master data governance project was kicked off to address and correct these issues.

The single system chosen to consolidate master data was SAP’s S/4HANA MDG. SAP MDG provides the company with the data governance and workflow processes to serve as the central framework to create, manage, approve, and distribute master data across five different ERP systems (SAP and non-SAP), seven trial balance locations, and the SAP Central Finance (cFIN) application.

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This case study was originally published by a partner in our business ecosystem, Clarkston Consulting. Learn more about Clarkston here, and contact our team today for more information about SAP MDG.