SAP Insider And Verdantis: Advanced Self-Service Master Data Improvement

Advanced Self-Service Master Data Improvement

Learn how to improve master data quality without outside help



Learn How to:• Improve master data quality without outside

help. • Leverage your internal robust processes• Standardize, normalize, attribute, rationalize,

and enrich your data using embedded knowledge

• Improve material, product, customer, vendor, and services master data with a secure, Saas deployed solution

• Leverage AI-Based and LBE-based technologies to optimize SAP NetWeaver® MDM, SAP® SRM, SCM, MM, and SAP PLM

Copyright 2013 Verdantis Inc.

Arthur RaguetteEVP, Verdantis, Inc.

About our speaker

Arthur Raguette, Executive Vice President, Verdantis, Inc. Mr. Raguette focuses on the application of innovative technologies to solve real-world business problems. Prior to Verdantis, Arthur championed hybridized middleware for OLTP, Geospatial interfaces of MOLAP engines for real-world information tracking, high compression interactive media for delivering online education to low bandwidth emerging markets, SaaS based Spend Management solutions, and some of the first cloud based applications that interacted with desktop applications to provide scalability and manageability while leveraging the ease-of-use familiarity with common applications.

Advanced Self-Service Master Data

Best Practices Learned from diverse companies• 100 Million + Master Data Records• Global 1000• Multinational• Multiple Languages


Advanced Self-Service Master Data

Best Practices Learned from diverse companies• Heterogeneous, often Complex Systems• Multiple Industries• Multiple Domains• Different Motivations

– SAP Upgrades– SAP Consolidations– M&A Consolidations– Shared Service Centers


• Process Separation and Combination• Quality Improvement Steps • Embed and Automate Internal Processes and

Expertise• Leverage Artificial Intelligence & Learn-by-

Example approaches– Initial / Historical Master Data– Ongoing Data Governance

• Force Multiplier for Team and Platform ROI

Agenda


Process Separation

Preparation

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Internal teams for master data

harmonization

Governance and SME Team Review for data integrity

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On-Going

Process Separation

Preparation

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harmonization

Cleanse (or Merge) and enrich historical

master data

SAP / ERP Upgrade, Consolidation, or

Merger/Acquisition

Historically externally provided as

A turn-key service, mostly match and

replace based


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On-Going

Process Separation

Preparation

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harmonization


master data


Merger/Acquisition



replace based


KEEP IT CLEAN

On-GoingControl processes to prevent duplication, and ensure on-going data integrity

New Requests, Forms, doc routing and partial validation

Historically SMEs and multifunctional team members collaborate through e-mail

Process Separation

Preparation

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harmonization


master data


Merger/Acquisition



replace based


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Leveraging ExperienceInternal and External

Team IntensiveCross Functional

Domain SMEsProcess SMEs

Common Functionality

Process Combination

Common Functionality

Preparation

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harmonization


master data


Merger/Acquisition



replace based


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Its not just about data quality – it is business information quality

Standardize Normalize Attribute RationalizeCategorization into pre-determined codes

Attribute, value, and measures (Address, UoM, Part Number, etc.)

Extract key data Structures from unstructured data for reporting

Identify or Block Duplication

Leveraging ExperienceInternal and External

Team IntensiveCross Functional

Domain SMEsProcess SMEs

EnrichAppend additional data elements



Example and LBE approaches– Initial / Historical Master Data– Ongoing Data Governance


Agenda


Data Quality Improvement Steps (1 of 3)

Data Analysis, and Preparation:

Data Scoping

Data Source / Raw data upload

Organization

Categorization / Classification to a

given taxonomy

Granularity

Class & Characteristics

Definition / Template Generation

and modification Copyright 2013 Verdantis Inc.

Data Quality Improvement Steps (2 of 3)

• Data Cleansing and Quality

Improvement:

• Attribute & Values extraction

• Attribute & Value

Normalization

• De-duplication

• Enrichment & Appending

Data


Data Quality Improvement Steps (3of 3)

• Staging and Loading (Build - > Run)

• Output Re-Generation

• Loading data to source system

• Reporting and Metrics

• Baseline for :

• Ongoing Maintenance

• Data GovernanceCopyright 2013 Verdantis Inc.




• Force Multiplier for Team and Platform ROI \

Agenda


Where we started...


Where we are today...


Project and Batch Management

• Task and Batch Management Improves workflow and Increases throughput– A graphical process builder is used to create a project or batch

process/data flow• Individual Processes can be ordered per project or per batch to set the

automation linkages and tie in the human team members

• Having multiple batches per project allows optimization of team members while managing interim deliverables across a global team


User and Workflow Management

• User Management to optimize your extended virtual team – Internal and External – User and Subject Matter Experts

• Identified by their value-add contribution to the Data Quality Improvement Process

• Added to the resource pool and • Configured for access

– A graphical workflow builder is used to create a project or batch workflow

• Resources are added to each stage with appropriate roles and responsibilities

• Project Management Team can easily track progress and gates/stages throughout the process.


Automation of Categorization

• Embed Advances in categorization, classification, and clustering– Next Generation of Artificial Intelligence based

classification combined with post processing closed-loop feedback


Automated Attribute Extraction

• Automated context-aware attribute, characteristic, and value identification and extraction– Domain and Taxonomy specific modules for materials

and industrial products

• Extendable intelligence for Industry and Geography coverage

• Extensible modules configurable by customers or by Verdantis






Agenda


Verdantis Automated MDM

VERDANTIS AUTOMATED MDM SOLUTION SUITE

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VERDANTISHARMONIZE

Automated solution for historical master data harmonization

Fully automated solution to cleanse

and enrich historical master data

Offered historically asA turn-key service

Now also offered as Licensed SaaS

Platform

Automated solution for real-time on-going data integrity

VERDANTIS INTEGRITY

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MDM/MDG application to prevent duplication, and ensure on-going data integrity

Artificial Intelligence forms the bedrock of Verdantis’ automated MDM solution suite

AutoClass AutoSpec AutoNorm AutoCrawlClassification into pre-determined codes

Attribute extraction & de-duplication software for Material master

Normalization& validation of MFG, MPN and UOM

Intelligent web spidering tool for Data harmonization

Verdantis KnowledgebaseDynamic content Repository

AI TechnologyAI-based Software ToolsAutoClass AutoSpecAutoNorm AutoCrawl



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VERDANTISHARMONIZE

Automated solution for historical master data harmonization

Fully automated solution to cleanse

and enrich historical master data

Offered historically asA turn-key service

Now also offered as Licensed SaaS

Platform








The encapsulation of 300 FTE years of data harmonization best practices and expertise accumulated across industries, systems and languages

What is Harmonize?


Demonstration Time

• Harmonize Demo



Automated solution for real-time on-going data integrity

VERDANTIS INTEGRITY

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MDM/MDG application to prevent duplication, and ensure on-going data integrity








Integrity is a data governance solution that supports cross functional collaboration, approval routing, and real-time master data governance and stewardship.

What is Integrity?


EASY/ADVANCED SEARCH for

Existing materials in the inventoryMaterial information such as part name,part description, stocking code, etc.

Create/Edit

Store Material Information

Search & retrieve

By.. …..Plant…..Division…..Keyword…..etc.

Enable comprehensive workflow process for material data creation/

modification

Approve/Reject

Enable collaboration and material data availability across

locations and divisions

Verdantis Material Integrity

Part number

Part Des-

cription

Stocking code

UNSPSC Code

HTS/ECCN Classification

Verdantis Integrity Framework

Plants , Manufacturing

facilities and Global Locations

ENSURE COMPLIANCE

Track inventory levelsSingle material master repository

SINGLE REPOSITORY FOR MANAGING MATERIAL DATA

Role Based Enrichment

Normalized and de-duplicatedmaterial attributes

Demonstration Time

• Verdantis Integrity Demo





Agenda


• Increase productivity of Data Quality Professionals individually or in Teams

• Manage Tasks and Projects to Improve workflow and Increase throughput

• Faster project implementations with domain-specific data templates

• Embed Advances in categorization, classification, and clustering• Automated context-aware attribute, characteristic, and value

identification and extraction• Delivers both greater Volume and Quality than manual

processes alone.

Force Multipliers


Internal Team x 10

Organizations who– Similar to our customers today (ERP/MRP/EAM and

Transformation Projects)– Have the internal resources to do the work– Also those

• with Non-Standard Domains with specific domain requirements, or

• Target continuous M&A or Joint Ventures

– Force Multiplier of x 10 through clustering, fuzzy logic matching, and LBE

– Automated Standardization, Normalization and Element Extraction lets one person run Thousands of records per day. Copyright 2013 Verdantis Inc.

The name Verdantis, comes from the Latin word for truth – veritas, as well as the word verdant – meaning abundant and sustainable.

Verdantis, Inc. has been delivering Automated Master Data Quality Improvement and Governance Solutions or more than a decade to Global 1000 Customers across industries, domains and the globe.

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