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Helping you through complex matters

In all stages of deliveries the 10 dimensions of Master Data Management is given the needed and balanced attention.

The context of and culture in the company is important, as each of the remaining 8 dimensions need to be treated and balanced according to these two fundamental preconditions. Not all will be important or urgent at the same time.

Companies are never organized exact the same way - even within the same industry. As Master Data act as a cross-company infrastructure these differences need to be understood and respected working on the specific improvements.

But most important:
Identify where and how to start !

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Reasons to take action

Below you will find some examples on challenges often seen, that calls for action.

And a few articles about methods and solutions can hopefully also inspire you.

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Medical device industries and Configuration methods

Configuration in the Medical Device industry. The Medical Device sector faces as other industries increasing complexity in their products. Not only the...

Stop copy-paste-change. Start configure your Master Data

Copy, paste, change, copy .... Many Master Data routines - and even systems per design - work in the way that Master Data objects or content is copied,...

Configuration, CPQ systems and Master Data

In a world of Configuration Many companies find themselves moving from Engineering og designing to stock and orders over Assemble to order further to...

Have you ever experienced:

Slow or cumbersome launches of products, solutions or services?

You find your company too slow to react to market needs or customer requests.

Facing a long process of setting up and approve data across many systems. Runing a parallel and paperbased homologation process, frequently finding products available too late. Or even available where they not should be due to the Master Data setup being detached from the homologation and regulatory process.

Disagreements between sales, production, R&D, regulatory affairs and QA about the available product portfolio?

Commercial exellence programs or PIM implementations arguing that this collection of Item numbers or products are "actually the same". Without having a definition of what makes them the same, ending up in endless mapping tables.

Endless battles about standardization versus the constantly changing customer needs forcing sales to "break" agreements of product or service variants available for a given market or customer.

Trying to solve the customer needs for mass customization by pushing back and enforce sale of standard offerings.

Drowning in and endless collection of Excel-sheets to "map" different collections or wording outside the main systems.

Hard times to keep the amount of Item numbers down?

Frequent campaigns to clean up the stock of item numbers (SKU), just to see them pop up again due to needs at the customer, or using item number variants to solve Master Data challenges in the logistics and supplychain.

Unaware if a large amount of item numbers actually perform a problem or just needs a method to be in control.

Price management being slow and demanding many resources?

A lot of manual steps across systems and departments to define and set up prices, loosing the overview of your margins.

Or finding old prices in your sales systems several months after central decisions on list price updates.

Salespeople making their own tables and sheets about priceinformation, discounts and margin calculations, as they don't trust the systems intended to use for that.

Master Data Governance and content in need for improvement - but you don't know where to start?

Have a gut feeling or several indications on a need to etasblish a better Master Data Governance setup - or even get one at all.

Facing firefighting and initiatives of improvements in isolated systems and departments, even Master Data flow across.

Many people talking about the Master Data quality that needs to be better, but each stakeholder having hard times to prioritize and initiate actions across that really have impact.

Difficulties finding out who "owns" Master Data?

Endless discussions about what to call things, when setting up your Master Data.

Master Data operators spending a lot of time hunting down people, who can tell what is right or wrong Master Data. Only to find disagreeing parties with equal decision power.