Hi ,
I was wondering the way CAF Guided Procedures have provided the strength to SAP MDM in a much needed way.Nowadays almost every MDM consultant trying to shape the Business Process with SAP MDM tool eventually lands up in stitching together all the components with CAF Guided Procedures.Most important aspect of guided procedures comes into picture when the data entered by requester needs to be pushed to MDM Repository only after the request is approved and not before that.In this situation when requester fills in the details,he sends the request to approver for approval.At this point the values filled by requester should be available to approver and those values should not be pushed to MDM.In this scenario GP does excellent job by giving power of passing values from one callable object to another through parameters .It sorts of provide temporary storage with parameters while sailing through the GP workflow and only when the request is approved one can push all the values to MDM at final step.Here only thing is we divide each entity requester,approver etc involved in the business process as unique callable objects.
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Interestingly GP provides one complete solution for designing complete complicated MDM business process flow .A request from requester might triggger some parallel approvals and GP gives exhaustive use of sequential and parallel blocks to customise the workflow in all possible conditional constraints.Also triggering of mail at everystep and calling of web services has never been so easy before.After all the callable objects are ready and available,it is the GP that provides the midas touch by assimilating all the objects together and providing them the right position in the Workflow.
In the end I could only say as per recent trends every MDM consultant is trying to design workflows in CAF Guided procedure to harnass the best of the available option.
Thanks
Vinay
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