Hi,
Recently, I was working on the topic "Monitoring of cross system workflows" in the context of Master Data creation and enrichment processes. In this blog, I would like to share some results with you and ask you for feedback.
1. Introduction
The idea to work on this subject came up because from my experience many customers and their users would like to observe the lifecycle of the creation or change of master data on a much larger scale than just in the specific master data system.
One important requirement is to be able to check whether the newly created or changed master data is distributed successfully to the backend or remote systems. In addition, it is useful to be able quickly to find out whether users in client systems have implemented additional views to enrich a specific material, and if so, to identify who those users are.
I completed the study of this topic by building a prototype for a SAP MDG-related use case in which material header data (such as description and basic data) is created and approved in a central MDG Hub and is then replicated to one ERP client. In the ERP client, a local user receives an automatically started workflow item to add additional views (such as sales and planning data) to the material. From an end user perspective, all steps together constitute one end-to-end process and should be observed in that way. Technically however, the prototype was built with SAP MDG standard features including ALE based replication and a new component within the ABAP Stack which is called SAP Process Observer ( bernd.schmitt/blog/2011/09/05/introducing-new-component-business-process-monitoring-analytics-for-business-suite-processes-pma)
Best Regards
Steffen
PS: I would like to thank my colleagues Bernd Schmitt, Jens-Christoph Nolte, Frank Damaschke and Lars Rueter who helped me a lot building the prototype. Lars was so kind to hand over his prototype which he already built months ago and which he already showed at a SAP TechEd. This was really a great starting point. Frank, who is an senior software architect at SAP, helped me a lot with his enormous knowledge in SAP MDG and ABAP. Thanks a lot!
