Validation Rules for Business Partners
Application component: Master Data Quality Management
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Application Development and Integration
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Data Quality Assurance for Master Data (S/4)|Master Data Management (S/4)
Description:  With this app, you can collaboratively describe, catalog, and implement rules for data quality using a central rule repository. These validation rules can be used for data quality evaluations and for checking data in change requests, in consolidation and in mass processing for products and business partners. 
With this app, you can collaboratively describe, catalog, and implement rules for data quality using a central rule repository. These validation rules can be used for data quality evaluations and for checking data in change requests, in consolidation and in mass processing for products and business partners.
As a Master Data Steward, you can use this app to get a structured and comprehensive access to rules as well as to link rules from the rule mining process to validation rules in the central rule repository. You can also trigger the rule export process from this app.
Note: Data quality rules have been renamed to validation rules.
Key features:  You can use this app to do the following:   Define rules including business details and responsibilities   Use status management to collaborate on rules and manage their lifecycle   Assign one or several of the following usages:  Data Quality Evaluation for evaluations that are scheduled to run in the background   Check in Change Requests for checks that can be executed during change request processing   Check in Consolidation for checks that can be executed during consolidation processes   Check in Mass Processing for checks that can be executed during mass processesNote If you use the cloud-ready mode, this usage is replaced by Check in Central Governance for checks that can be executed during governance processes for business partners.   Check in Inbound Processes for checks that can be applied to inbound processes in central governance for business partners (only applicable for the cloud-ready mode)     Enable or disable the usage for each master data process   Define the technical implementation and execution of rules with BRFplus   Configure a message that will appear in the master data processes where the rule is applied   Link rules from the rule mining process to validation rules in the central rule repository. If automatic implementation is supported, the BRFplus implementation is automatically added. For more information, see Process Rules from Rule Mining.  Check the details of the evaluation and select the score number to navigate to the evaluation result of this rule in the Evaluation Results appNote The evaluation runs are scheduled in the Evaluate Data Quality app.  Simulate rules to check if they work as intended   Check if the rule is assigned to any dimensions, which is done in the Configure Master Data Quality Scores app   Check the administrative data and select Show Audit Trail to display the history of the validation rule   Start the export of rules   
Business roles: Master Data Steward - Business Partner Data