Glossário · MDG
MDG (Master Data Governance)
MDG is the part of MDM that defines and enforces the rules of the record: who may create it, what is mandatory, who approves, what blocks, and what is logged. It turns written policy into system behaviour — the rule stops depending on someone remembering it.
In practice
What this changes in your master data
Rules in the system, not in the manual
A mandatory field the system does not enforce is an optional field. Governance closes that gap.
Approval with an audit trail
Who approved, what was there before, what replaced it, and when. That is what makes an audit possible without reconstructing from memory.
Questions
Frequently asked questions about this term
The difference shows up the day an exception is requested. With governance, the exception has an owner, a written reason and a record; without it, the exception becomes the new standard and nobody can say when that happened.
It trades rework for checking up front. A record approved on the first pass does not come back from purchasing, tax or inventory — and it is that return trip that consumes time today.
The area that owns the domain, supported by the people who operate it. A rule defined by IT alone is a rule the operation works around.
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