What the Aggregate Physician Spend Quick Starter is all About

The U.S. government introduced The Physician Payment Sunshine Act requiring manufacturers and group purchasing organizations to report on a wide range of payments to physicians and physician-owned entities. According to this, the U.S. requires yearly reporting of all physician payments over a cumulative value of $100 dollars – with the first report being due by March 31, 2011.
Not only due to this legal obligation are health care providers and organizations struggling with a missing single view on their physician data. The data mostly resides in multiple business application systems and is referenced by a number of transactions such as payment or logistical processes.

Situation without aggregated spend data

 

The sample graphic shows a typical scenario, where the physician spend data is dispersed inconsistently across several source systems. Aggregation of the data reveals that the total expenses exceed the allowed range (based on fictituous data).

This quick starter package facilitates a fast implementation of a Physician Spend Aggregation process based on SAP NetWeaver MDM. It covers the data extraction from SAP Business Suite systems as well as the actual import into SAP NetWeaver MDM for consolidation. Once the data has been consolidated it is ready for usage by business intelligence tools such as SAP NetWeaver BW. Life sciences companies can directly leverage the out-of-the-box integration content to reduce the time to value to a minimum.

What it has in it for You

The Aggregate Physician Spend Quick Starter provides pre-defined integration content including:

• Out-of-the-box data model covering both health care providers and organizations
  
• Extractors for SAP Business Suite systems (incl. SAP ERP, CRM, and SRM) for both reference and master data
  
• Pre-defined MDM import mappings for SAP Business Suite systems
  
• Matching strategies for physician data
  
• Pre-defined MDM export mappings fueling SAP Business Suite systems
  
• Configurable export mappings fitting your reporting system
  

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What are MDM Quick Starters? 

SAP NetWeaver MDM provides a generic infrastructure to address manifold business pain points related to misaligned master data. To accelerate the implementation process for specific MDM usages, SAP NetWeaver MDM incorporates preconfigured Business Content. This concept has proven to be successful, and this is why we have decided to further extend this approach by introducing MDM Quick Starters. 

MDM Quick Starters (QS) are preconfigured business packages that are intended to enable SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (MDM) customers to rapidly deploy and implement a working scenario for master data management processes on top of MDM and in some cases, in conjunction with SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (BPM). 

What is the Quick Starter for Collaborative Material Master Data Creation all About?

Basic information about how to go about collaborative master data creation processes in heterogeneous landscapes based on SAP NetWeaver MDM and SAP NetWeaver BPM, including the associated benefits has already been highlighted in my recent blog about SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 SP4 and in the Error-Free, Consistent Master Data Starts at the Source article.

To provide customers with additional value through an accelerated implementation of a scenario that is streamlined towards the central creation of globally-relevant, identifying master data attributes and their propagation to the relevant application systems in a heterogeneous landscape, SDN now features an MDM quick starter package for collaborative material master data creation. This QS package can be used as a template providing relevant sample content for a collaborative creation process for material master data based on SAP NetWeaver MDM and SAP NetWeaver BPM. It serves as a starting point and can be easily tailored to suit specific business needs.

Sample Process Flow

Think of the following typical business scenario in which the quick starter package can be leveraged:

An LOB owner requires a new material to further process it in the supply chain:

1. LOB owner checks if the required material record already exists in ERP system. If not, LOB owner requests creation via specific request form. LOB owner can check the completed request form against SAP NetWeaver MDM to find out whether the material’s record already exists in the central SAP NetWeaver MDM registry. If not, the LOB owner dispatches the request.
   
2. Request appears in the inbox of a designated data steward. The Data Steward enriches the material record, runs specific validations and finally approves the record.
   
3. The approved record is now in the inbox of the requestor for review and confirmation.
   
4. Once confirmed, the record is automatically created in SAP NetWeaver MDM and propagated to the requestor’s system. The LOB owner who requested the record is notified of the available data. 
   

Process Flow in the Process Composer

Technically, MDM’s functionality is exposed as Web services and web-based data governance UIs which are wrapped as workflow steps and combined in a logical process flow using SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management. In the Process Composer, the flow of this master data creation process looks as follows:

What Has the Quick Starter Package in it for You?

The new quick starter package for governed material creation provides the following capabilities:

• Preconfigured BPMN based process flow
  
• Preconfigured Web-based Data Governance UI Components (e.g. Enrich & Approve)
  
• Request form
  
• Portal roles (e.g. Data Steward)
  
• Preconfigured MDM Web services (e.g. Update Record)
  
• Leverages standard MDM Material data model
  
• Enterprise Service Consumption (Create Material Basic Data)
  

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