What is meant by a global end-to-end business data strategy?

The global End-to-End business data strategy delivers to our key business needs. In our company, speed to market is critical. Similarly to many CPG/FMCG companies, we are using a variety of systems. In order to deliver to customer satisfaction, all systems will need to operate in sync. Therefore, the consistency and completeness of the underlying data, is of the utmost importance. Unfortunately our landscape currently is not yet consistent, hence we’re executing on a business data strategy. 

What are the main challenges with integration across different business and how are you solving those?

Our main challenges currently are to manage all the manual integrations. Therefore, our analytics are different and the speed is limited. The end-to-end business data strategy is helping the company to seize control. First time right and single data capture across the enterprise is what we are heading towards. 

What are your main successes with data supporting business strategy?

Realization of automation (design – deployment) in 6 months and delivering reduction in lead-time for the business. We are now live across the full organization for Customer, Vendor and Material Master – all views, all fields – , generating ~95k requests per year with ~1200 users worldwide. With this level of success we’ve been able to expand scope towards all the data across the organization on the same methodology. 

What would you like to achieve by attending the 19th Edition in Master Data Management: Digitalization, DQ & RPA?

Gain perspective of different companies on similar strategies. I’d like to learn from my peers and gain insights on pitfalls and successes.