Fueling Quality Master Data in Heterogeneous & Hybrid Solution Landscape

Client

Our client is a North Carolina, US-based global silicon carbide technology and production leader.

Challenges

• Data cleansing and enrichment in line with the new material coding solution and harmonization with the existing solution
• Managing the status of prospective suppliers and customers
• Extending the role as a supplier and shipping to their party managing number ranges
• Missing multiple attributes in SAP standard Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) messages forced to shift to SAP ALE-IDOCS
• Meta-data synchronization after go-live with a custom solution approach

LTM Solution

• LTM analyzed and strategized the Master Data Governance (MDG) policy to ensure quality master data for all planned digital transformations.
• Implemented cloud-based SAP MDG hub on S/4HANA for all key enterprise master data objects (material, business partner, and finance).
• Connected SAP MDG hub to on-premise and on-cloud SAP and non-SAP applications. Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG) and Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) integrated with cloud applications (SAP ARIBA and SAP Salesforce).
• Implemented the following Master Data Management (MDM) business processes to fulfill the business requirements:
  • Central MDG
  • Master data consolidation
  • Data quality management
  • Mass record processing
  • MDG analytics

Business Benefits

• 100% business rule-based validation for critical attributes of master data to ensure data integrity
• 80% improvement in SLA by collaborating and orchestrating business users with an escalation mechanism
• 85% increase in the quality of spend analytics and corporate reporting by consolidating master data
• 100% automation of integration with SAP Soware-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and non-SAP legacy analytics application ith an intelligent platform
• 95% improvement in user experience through mass changes and record processing functionality