Master Data Management
Most procurement problems are data problems wearing a process costume. This fixes them before they reach the systems that will multiply them.
Bad master data is expensive downstream, cheap upstream
A duplicate supplier is a rounding error the day it is created and a payment-fraud exposure two years later. By the time the ERP, the P2P platform and the analytics warehouse each hold their own version of the truth, nobody can say which one is right, and every report carries an asterisk.
- The same supplier under four spellings, three tax IDs and two payment terms
- Category spend that cannot be trusted because classification is manual
- Onboarding that stalls because nobody owns the validation rules
- Analytics rebuilt each quarter because the source data moved underneath it
What it does
Validate at the point of entry
Rules run when a record is created, not in a monthly clean-up. A record that cannot pass does not enter the estate.
Enrich from external sources
Registry identifiers, sanctions and tax status appended automatically, with the source and timestamp kept against the field.
Govern who may change what
Field-level ownership with an approval path, so a payment-detail change is not the same event as a phone-number change.
Publish to every downstream system
One governed record syndicated to ERP, P2P and analytics, so the systems stop keeping private copies.
Where it sits
Upstream of everything. It does not replace your ERP's vendor master. It decides what is allowed to become one.
- Sits upstream of
- ERP · P2P · Analytics
- Typical first domain
- Supplier master
- Also modelled
- Material, cost centre, chart of accounts
- Integration shape
- API and file, event-driven where the target supports it
Live readout
- Supplier records validated
- 12,408 / 12,431
- Enrichment coverage
- 96.4%
- Governance rules active
- 214
- Sync targets
- ERP · P2P · Analytics
- Procurement operations teams carrying a supplier onboarding backlog
- Finance teams whose spend reporting needs an asterisk
- Programs about to migrate onto a new procurement platform
See Master Data Management against your own process
Run it in the Experience Centre with sample data, or book a session and we will run it against your categories, your ERP and your approval chains.