Integration Scenarios & APIs

Why does SAP forbid a Convenience API instance and a Governance API instance from existing at the same time?

When SAP PLM is the leading system and MDG governs the material master, how does the ECR workflow avoid stalling while it waits for MDG's final approval?

For third-party integration with MDG, what decides whether you use a web-service interface versus a file-based interface?

Beyond convenience, what is the main architectural reason to route custom code through the Governance API rather than calling CL_USMD_MODEL and the other APIs directly?

A hybrid landscape needs bidirectional business-partner sync between MDG and SAP Cloud for Customer. What release floor must C4C meet?

From which SAP S/4HANA Cloud release do native master-data-management capabilities such as BP/product consolidation and mass processing become available?

In a Central Finance deployment, what specific job does MDG do so a source-system FI posting lands with the right master data in the Central Finance instance?

In the Central Finance scenario, what actually replicates the FI documents from source ERP systems into the Central Finance instance, and where is MDG's boundary?

When developing custom MDG code that runs outside the Single Object Maintenance UI, which application-framework API should you instantiate?

A developer uses the Governance API to run CRUD on an entity and expects the change to show up in the active area. Why won't it?

Reading and writing hierarchy assignments through the Governance API is unavailable on older MDG releases. From which release did it become possible?

The Application Context API is often mistaken for a data-access API like the Governance API. What does it actually do?

With MDG, Supplier as the leading system in an SAP Ariba integration, what step must precede creating a new supplier, and why is it easy to skip?

For GDPR-driven removal of a business partner, what mechanism does the MDG–SAP ILM integration use, and what happens to a flagged record?

SAP Information Steward has flagged records that failed data rules or matched on review. How does that turn into a governed correction in MDG?