Material Master Solution helps American Supplier and Manufacturer Scale Its Business
Key Takeaways
⇨ The Material Master solution labor savings alone provided less than a 2.5-year return on investment
⇨ Adding Customer Master and Vendor Master solutions the ROI will accelerate to approximately 18 months
⇨ Savings were realized by eliminating the 'push and pull' SharePoint workflow process and data quality was dramatically improved.
Business growth demanded an automated solution for SAP Material Master adjustments that would ensure data integrity, business rule compliance, visibility into the process, and eliminate manual data entry. The solution(s) also needed to be scalable to support an aggressive growth plan imposed by upper management. The company was utilizing a complex Excel-based form (template) in conjunction with SharePoint workflow to collect data from various business users.
Challenge #1: Template Maintenance. In order to support effective master data management, the Excel template limited some of the SAP data to drop down lists. When values changed in SAP, it was necessary to update the dropdown lists in the template, After completing these changes, a new version of the template would be distributed throughout the business, yet there was no version control regime to ensure users were utilizing the most current version of the template.
Challenge #2: Business Rule Compliance. It was not possible to ensure business rules were followed based on varying combinations of data. Many of the users completing the data did not understand the downstream impact of data, which required 100% manual inspection and correction by data stewards.
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