Consolidation & Mass Processing

Why can't you set the 'Call DRF after Activation' flag in MDG consolidation on SAP S/4HANA?

Besides writing data to the active tables, what key side effect does activation trigger?

Can MDG staging (flex) tables be used as active tables for a consolidation custom object in S/4HANA 1809?

What is the difference between SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 in the consolidation frontend?

How is a consolidation 'process' bound to a specific business object, given the UI is object-independent?

What is the technical relationship between MDG consolidation/mass processing and MDG central governance?

Does consolidation and mass processing require an SAP HANA database to run?

Why can't a mass processing run de-duplicate records the way a consolidation run does?

In which MDG release can a single business partner be linked to more than one vendor or customer through consolidation, and where is it absent?

Why run consolidation before loading master data into central governance, rather than loading directly and letting governance clean it?

Which master data objects are delivered out of the box for consolidation, and what is required for anything else?

What distinguishes the MDC_147 business partner process model from the standard 147 model?

You open a *_PRC process table in SE16N and see three rows for the same source record. Is this a data error?

In SAP HANA fuzzy matching for consolidation, what does a similarity score close to 1.0 mean?

Among the delivered best-record-calculation rules, which one operates at the field level rather than the table level?

Can the best record calculation step be run on its own, or before matching?

Which process step is mandatory in every consolidation/mass processing template?

How does the Filter and Remove step's position in a template differ from other steps, and which adapter is restricted to business partner 147?

What is the difference between the process goals 'Consolidation of Source Records' and 'Consolidation for Central Maintenance'?

Under the 'Consolidation of Active Records' goal, how do the Remove Duplicates, Improve Best Record, and Improve All Records strategies differ in what happens to the duplicates?

For authorization object MDC_PROOT, what is the difference between activity 31 (Confirm) and activity 37 (Accept)?

Why is SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (LTR) especially favored for consolidation initial loads from existing SAP Business Suite systems?

In SLT, what is the operational difference between Stop Replication and Suspend for a table?

SOA inbound processing can auto-create and start consolidation processes from message payloads — for which object type is this not supported?

Through which UI can consolidation and mass processing operations be performed?

In the standardization step, what is the difference between enrichment and normalization?

When loading source data via the customer or vendor data model, what must you guarantee about the source IDs and why?

After the initial check, a handful of records show high-complexity errors. What is the pragmatic next step to keep the process moving?

On the matching results screen, what does an orange data bar mean versus a blue data bar?

Which auditing and de-duplication capabilities in consolidation are gated to SAP S/4HANA 1809?

For a custom object with no MDG data model (e.g. a purchase info record), which activation type must you use?

When the checkpoint's Action Control is set to 'Apply the four-eyes principle', who may continue the process step?