Efficient mass-enrichment of business partner data in SAP MDG

Lead Product Manager Risk & Compliance

Managing and enriching business partner data at scale is a monumental task for many organizations, particularly during mergers, acquisitions, or large-scale updates. Imagine having to manually process 100,000 records—reviewing addresses, validating data, and creating change requests for each. Such an approach would strain your master data teams for months, with the risk that the data might be outdated by the time the process concludes.

So, how can organizations streamline this challenge?

CDQ, in partnership with SAP, offers a robust mass-enrichment feature designed to simplify and accelerate the bulk loading, validation, and enrichment of business partner data into SAP Master Data Governance. This article explores how CDQ’s integration with SAP MDG helps maintain high data quality, reduce manual effort, and ensure accurate, trusted records.

The value of trusted external data

Business partner data often originates from official sources such as government registries, tax authorities, and commercial providers. These sources offer the most reliable insights into a company’s legal structure, tax obligations, and operational status. However, integrating this data across diverse registers and formats can be resource-intensive and technically complex.

CDQ simplifies this by harmonizing data from multiple trusted sources, offering a unified format that integrates seamlessly into SAP MDG. With this solution, organizations can avoid the hassle of building bespoke integrations while accessing accurate, up-to-date data from global providers and official registries.

Efficient mass enrichment of Business Partners

Let's look at the “SAP_BP_COA SAP: Consolidate BP Automated” process, which is designed to enhance the information available about business partner master data in SAP MDG. It serves two main purposes:

Onboarding New Business Partners: Enriches data when onboarding new partners, ensuring complete and accurate records from the outset.
Updating Existing Business Partners: Keeps data current by updating changes in business partner information, such as name, address, or operational status.

This capability is essential for handling initial data migrations, continuous updates, or complex scenarios such as mergers and acquisitions.

SAP_BP_COA SAP: Consolidate BP Automated

>>Read the full process description on SAP Community Blog

Quick view on steps in the mass-enrichment process

CDQ and SAP MDG streamline the mass-enrichment process through six structured steps, ensuring data accuracy and scalability.

1. Initial Data Quality Check

Mass data uploads often include inconsistent, incomplete, or duplicate records. The initial check identifies missing fields, validates formatting, and flags issues upfront. By cleansing the data early, the process minimizes errors and lays a strong foundation for enrichment.

CDQ Value: This step ensures that only high-quality data proceeds to enrichment, saving time and reducing manual corrections.

2. Reference Data Lookup

CDQ connects to trusted external sources—global providers like D&B or free government registers—to validate key identifiers such as tax numbers and registration IDs. This ensures data accuracy by cross-referencing multiple authoritative sources.

CDQ Value: Access to a vast network of global and regional data providers enhances data reliability.

3. Address Data Validation

Keeping address data current is critical for compliance and operational efficiency. CDQ verifies and updates addresses using the latest data from trusted sources, ensuring that records reflect real-world changes.

CDQ Value: This step prevents data decay by systematically aligning your records with up-to-date information.

4. Intelligent Matching and Filtering

Advanced matching algorithms group similar records and identify the most relevant matches. This step also filters out inactive or irrelevant entities, ensuring that only the most accurate and actionable data is enriched.

CDQ Value: Intelligent filtering ensures that organizations focus only on active, high-quality records, improving overall data governance.

5. Golden Record Creation

CDQ’s golden record technology aggregates data from multiple sources to create a single, unified version of each business partner record. This comprehensive approach eliminates inconsistencies and strengthens data accuracy by including additional identifiers like LEIs (Legal Entity Identifiers).

CDQ Value: The golden record approach consolidates fragmented data into a single, reliable source of truth.

6. Final Activation

After enrichment, organizations can review enriched records for quality assurance before activating them. This step provides a final opportunity to refine settings, correct inconsistencies, or manually validate specific records.

CDQ Value: Flexible activation enables precise control over data governance, ensuring only the highest-quality records are deployed.

Why CDQ for mass enrichment?

CDQ’s partnership with SAP provides an out-of-the-box solution tailored for scalability, accuracy, and ease of use.

Scalability: Efficiently handle mass data loads, whether for initial migrations or ongoing updates.
Data Quality: Trusted data sources and robust validation processes ensure high integrity.
Flexibility: Configurable enrichment processes adapt to your unique data requirements.
Seamless Integration: CDQ’s unified data services integrate directly with SAP MDG, minimizing technical complexity.

The partnership between CDQ and SAP delivers an innovative approach to mass-enriching business partner data, combining decades of experience in master data management with cutting-edge technology. Organizations can now achieve significant efficiency gains in large-scale data projects, ensuring that their business partner data is always accurate, reliable, and ready to support critical business decisions.

Explore our other articles to learn more about leveraging SAP MDG and CDQ for business partner master data Management.

Ready to elevate your data management strategy? Learn more about CDQ’s integration with SAP MDG, or contact our team to discuss how we can help streamline your business partner data enrichment process.

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