Master Data Management Learning Path

The Master Data Management (MDM) Foundations course is designed with the Business User and the non-technical MDM System Administrator in mind. From a Business User perspective, you will learn fundamental knowledge to create and submit requests, as well as how to perform tasks to create and change data in the workflow process. From an Administrator perspective, you will learn how to create a new Business Process using existing components, including how to customize the task pages for the new process. You will also learn how to configure security. It’s important for the Business User to see the Administrator functionality so they understand the capability and can request relevant updates from the Administrator. There are hands-on exercises in a Learning Lab environment for each module. This course is a prerequisite to the Master Data Management (MDM) Developer course, which leads to a certification.

Objectives 

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: 

• Create and submit a request 
• Process a request to Create or Change master data, including working through Roles in the workflow, using Task pages, and Finishing a Role. 
• Process requests to Extend a master data record to a new organizational unit or to a new business object, such as a bill of material or ship-to address. 
• Learn the user experience options for data validation, governance, and automation while implementing a task. 
• Learn how other Stewardship Tier components are used within the MDM solution, such as Common and Collect. 
• Understand in more detail the configuration of the MDM building blocks, including role and scenario types. 
• Configure Security by maintaining users and modifying Organizational Units. 
• Update Scenario+Role+Task+Column (SRTC) settings to allow task pages to behave differently depending on the Scenario-Role-Task combination. 
• Create a new Business Process and Scenario using existing MDM building blocks.  

Prerequisites

The Stewardship Tier Foundations and MDM Essentials courses are prerequisites for this course. SQL skills are not required.

This comprehensive course is designed with the MDM Developer in mind. You will learn how to configure MDM for a new client, customizing the solution to meet specific client needs. The course begins by looking at how to revise existing processes, including enhancing a task page, adding data validation, adding conditional dependencies to the workflow, and revising security. Then, you will take a deeper dive into how to create new business processes, configure new security positions and roles, and how to vary how a page behaves depending on the Scenario-Role-Task combination, all done by implementing SRTC (Scenario+Role+Task+Column) functionality.  

You’ll also learn how to make a field required and create variants in SRTC. You’ll learn additional governance options, including how to add a stored procedure to launch when a request is submitted, configure specific security by organizational units, and how to configure posting functionality. There are hands-on exercises in a Learning Lab environment throughout the course. Upon completion of the course you can take a comprehensive exam to receive an MDM Developer Certification. 

Objectives 

Upon completion of this class, participants will be able to: 

• Modify the task page to enhance the user experience by adding column properties, such as labels, tabs, watermarks, and so on. 
• Validate data using list and combo boxes, validation rules, and business rules. 
• Configure the audit table to enhance the Review Role capability. 
• Revise the workflow based on Conditional Dependencies. 
• Create new business processes by configuring Tasks, Roles, Role Dependencies, Scenarios, and Business Processes. 
• Configure security through MDM Security Positions. 
• Configure Scenario+Role+Task+Column (SRTC) to Create a Reusable Process 
• Incorporate data variants into the SRTC configuration to allow task pages to behave differently depending on the Scenario, Role, Task AND Data combination. 
• Configure Default Rules, including DGE, content, and conditional defaults. 
• Add Submit Events to insert data into the Task Table, either from the Request page, from dgSAP tables, or from a Default Page. 
• Configure security by organizational unit, setting up configuration pages and configuring the Org Units in MDM. 
• Configure Posting, so that the new or revised record is loaded into the target system (SAP), then a return value, such as Vendor Number, is updated in the Task Table, and finally dgSAP tables in Stewardship Tier can be updated with the record that was loaded into SAP. 

Prerequisites

1. The MDM Foundations course is a prerequisite to this course.
2. The Framework Development course is also a prerequisite for MDM Developer.
3. Beginner or better SQL Server skills are also required.