It is utmost important that a governance body is able to identify the shared infoobjects or any assignment ofthe shared infoobject to the same business rules definition as required by new projects or enhancement. This is important to keep single version of truth of the same business definition master data. One example of this is location. If the location refers to general geographical place, then it can fit any geographical definition like plant,endmarket or factory. But in certain reporting drilldown or mappings, a specific master data set is required hence plant is different from endmarket and they are different set of master data with respective infoobjects. This is important when assigning the attributes as attributes are technically correct for 1:m relationship but not m:n. Eg. Malaysia is an attribute of Selangor but Malaysia cannot be an attribute to Selangor if the business definition is not referring to national country but export country as Malaysia,India,UK could be the export country for Selangor and vice versa Malaysia can be export country to Selangor,Perak and Melaka.
Some of the important infoobjects to watch out for during a request for creation or change in infoobjects are:
1) Geographical infoobject such as region,area,cluster,endmarket and business unit
2) Material infoobject that has a lot of attributes
3) Regional infoobjects that push master data to global level has to be compounded with source system as the same master data can mean different thing in different region. Eg is material ABC is a Finish Good in Asia but it is a Raw material in Europe.
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