COMPONENTS & TOOLS OF SAP NETWEAVER

SAP NetWeaver MDM can help you

• Consolidate master data – Create the best version of master data objects with data from disparate systems in a centralized repository. Cleanse, normalize, and enrich your master data objects through integration with SAP BusinessObjects Data Services software.
• Synchronize and distribute master data – Use global attributes to ensure all systems receive consistent master data. Allow regions or divisions to add attributes in the target systems as needed.
• Centrally create and manage master data – Supports enterprise-wide data governance by enabling centralized master data management through integration with SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management.
• Manage rich product content – Manage unstructured content, including PDFs and images. Publish incremental updates of your content and distribute in several delimited text and XML formats to different business units or trading partners.
• Integrate customer data – Build a customer data repository to efficiently coordinate customer processes across business units and locations. Impact the top line with cross-sell and up-sell support, make better-informed decisions, and improve your customer-facing activities.
• Manage vendor data – Manage vendor data from SAP and non-SAP sources to eliminate administrative miscommunication, reduce supply chain delays, and support global business intelligence initiatives. Incorporate external validation services such as Dun & Bradstreet.

SAP NetWeaver MDM can help you achieve significant benefits, including reduced IT costs and quantifiable ROI. You can also:

• Improve business process efficiency – Streamline processes by eliminating time-consuming manual look-ups and delivering reliable master data to your operational systems.
• Support decision making – Drive better-informed business decisions with more reliable analysis and reporting through data harmonization and integration with SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services. Identify relationships between entities like related products, and expose in your Web or print catalog, thus increasing each average purchase and improving your internal support processes.
• Respond with flexibility to changing business climates – When the business climate changes, be better prepared to respond with well-managed master data. Meet changing compliance standards for government and industry regulations by eliminating duplicate, incomplete, or outdated information on customers, products, suppliers, and materials. Support data governance initiatives with unified data to help ensure maximum returns on BI and enterprise application initiatives.