Unlock the Full Potential of Your SAP MDG Investment
Streamline your master data processes, enhance data quality, and boost user adoption with the Alluvion MDG Productivity Pack (MPP). This powerful add-on fills the functionality gaps in standard SAP MDG, providing a robust suite of tools that accelerate your return on investment. Now an officially SAP Certified Solution, the MPP combines proven best practices and critical features developed and refined through more than 500 days of development.
Trusted by Leading Global Companies
For Terumo-Europe, the MPP is a strategic tool that supports process automation and increases productivity. The add-on is extremely well integrated, so much so that our end user doesn't know where SAP MDG ends and the MPP starts.
Matthias Ceulemans, Business Analyst MDG at Terumo Europe
More Than an Add-on, It's a Business Multiplier
Accelerate Processes and Boost Productivity
The MDG Productivity Pack is designed to make your team more efficient. By automating routine tasks and simplifying complex workflows, users can adapt quickly and focus on what matters. The solution enables you to automatically skip unnecessary process steps based on the data content, minimizing manual work and enabling faster data entry.
Enhance Data Quality and Ensure Compliance
Achieve superior data quality through seamless integration with external data services and a powerful internal validation framework. The integrated checklist provides unparalleled visibility and traceability, which is crucial for audits and internal compliance. You can embed compliancy rules directly into the process, track user activities with a full history, and even support GDPR requirements for Business Partners.
Reduce Costs and Speed Up Implementation
Why build when you can deploy? The MDG Productivity Pack offers a lower investment cost compared to a custom consulting track and ensures a faster implementation time. By bundling the most common and critical functionalities, we can save you the equivalent of over 500 man-days of development work.
The Alluvion SAP MDG Productivity Pack has helped us save as much as the equivalent of 6 full-time employees. Therefore, we can confidently say that using the add-on has resulted in significant cost savings and increased user acceptance.
Master Data Manager, Chemical Multinational
How We Deliver Value
The MDG Productivity Pack is grouped into four core areas: the Integrated Checklist Principle, Intelligent Process Automation, Seamless Data Integration & Enrichment, and Extra User Experience (UX).
The Integrated Checklist Principle: Your Central Governance Hub
Our checklist principle is a "game-changing" feature that enables control, governance, and insight. It allows you to embed and track both manual and automated tasks directly within the MDG process.
- User Activity Tracking: Assign mandatory or optional tasks to users and track their completion historically.
- Post-Processing for Materials: Ensure all related tasks in SAP ECC and SAP S/4 HANA are completed, such as BOM creation, routing and costing, supporting full material lifecycle control.
- Compliance & Data Validation: Integrate external checks like VIES (VAT) or credit rating lookups as required steps in the process. The results are fed back directly into the checklist.
Intelligent Process Automation
Let the system do the heavy lifting. Our tools empower you to build intelligent, flexible, and efficient workflows.
- Content-Driven Workflows: Automatically change the processing path based on which "sensitive fields" are modified. A minor change can follow a simple path, while a change to financial data can trigger a more robust approval flow.
- Dynamic Task Distribution: For changes affecting multiple organizational units (e.g., two different plants), the system can start parallel tasks and send them only to the responsible teams for those specific units.
- Built-in Derivations: Speed up data entry by automatically defaulting fields based on other content you've entered. Our solution offers cross-entity derivations, which goes beyond the SAP standard solution.
Seamless Data Integration & Enrichment
Improve data quality from the start with our comprehensive integration framework that connects to leading external data providers.
- Address Validation: Enrich and validate addresses worldwide using services from providers like CDQ or SAP DQM microservices.
- Financial and Risk Data: Perform VAT number validation, IBAN fraud checks, credit rating checks with providers like Bisnode or D&B, and risk assessments against sanction lists.
- Enrichment Framework: Use an external identifier (like a DUNS number) to automatically look up and populate organizational information, facilitating a more efficient and correct data entry process.
Enhanced User Experience (UX)
Small details make a big difference in user adoption. We've added dozens of usability features to make working in MDG more intuitive.
- Improved Transparency: Instantly see how many notes or attachments exist for a change request or how many tasks are in your inbox.
- EasyContext Side Panel: View all relevant data for a Business Partner or Material in a convenient side panel, including change logs from both MDG and S/4HANA, related attachments, and multiple assignments.
- Flexible Notifications: Request information from colleagues within the system to avoid untraceable email chains. A customizable email notification framework can also inform the right people at the right time with relevant details.
See the MDG Productivity Pack in Action
Words only go so far. Watch these short demo videos to see how key features can immediately improve your master data processes or contact us for a session tailored to your unique business challenges.
Watch Our Feature Spotlights
The Integrated Checklist
See how to embed automated tasks like material derivations and post-processing steps directly into your workflow.
Live Compliance Checks
Watch how the MPP performs real-time VIES VAT validation and integrates with other data quality services.
Content-Driven Workflows
Discover how the process path can automatically change based on the data being entered, saving time and reducing user errors.
Unlock Clarity and Control with RACI
RACI is a powerful framework that brings structure and clarity to your processes by clearly defining who does what, so nothing falls through the cracks.
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Responsible (R): The doers
The people who roll up their sleeves and execute the work. -
Accountable (A): The decision-maker
The single person who owns the outcome and ensures the task gets completed. -
Consulted (C): The advisors
Key stakeholders whose expertise and input are essential before decisions are made. -
Informed (I): The observers
Those who need visibility into progress, even if they’re not directly involved.
Two new MPP modules, one governed foundation
Both modules extend SAP MDG's proven Consolidation and Mass Processing framework, the same framework SAP delivers today for Materials and Business Partners, so nothing about how your team works has to change.
The gap in standard SAP MDG
SAP MDG handles bulk creation and change of materials just fine. BOMs, derivations and workflow approvals are a different story: none of them can be maintained in SAP MDG. So organizations bolt on separate tools, manual steps and disconnected processes to get the job done.
MPP Process Orchestrator closes that gap with one modular, governed end-to-end process. Mass material creation and change, BOM data, automatic derivations and workflow-based approvals, built on Alluvion's MPP RACI concept, all starting from a single Excel file.
- One Excel file drives material data, BOM data, derivations and approvals together
- Modular by design: switch on mass processing, BOMs, derivations or approval workflows independently, and add more as your needs grow
- Every record validated and enriched before it's written to SAP, with RACI-based approve or reject control for the master data team
The gap in standard SAP MDG
SAP MDG's mass processing framework was never built for Bills of Materials. Every BOM gets created or changed one at a time, screen by screen. A single plant rollout or component swap can mean hundreds of manual entries, and just as many chances to get one wrong.
MPP BoM Maintenance fixes that. Prepare BOM data in a structured Excel template, the same upload approach your team already uses for other MDG objects. Every line gets validated against consistency checks before it ever reaches SAP. Hundreds of BOMs, created or updated, in a single run.
- Mass creation of new BOMs, not just changes to existing ones
- Supports multiple alternatives and every BOM usage configured in your system: production, engineering/design, universal, plant maintenance, sales, costing
- No scripts, no load programs, no waiting on IT. Fully governed and auditable throughout
The gap in standard SAP MDG
SAP MDG provides workflow capabilities, but standard workflows often leave organizations to manage roles, responsibilities and field ownership through manual coordination. The result is unclear accountability, unnecessary handovers and avoidable delays in master data processes.
Alluvion’s RACI feature brings structure and control directly into the workflow. It defines who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed at every step, while dynamically assigning tasks, controlling field access and enforcing your data governance rules.
- Clear roles and responsibilities for every master data task
- Dynamic task assignment based on the change type and process requirements
- Field-level control to ensure the right people edit the right data
- Mandatory-field checks and built-in governance controls
- Parallel task execution to reduce bottlenecks and accelerate workflows
- Complete visibility for stakeholders, with transparent approval and accountability
Ready for a Deeper Look?
For a personalized, in-depth session tailored to your specific business needs, contact us to schedule a full demo. We'll walk you through how the Alluvion MDG Productivity Pack can transform your master data operations.