One of the country’s leading Fast Moving Electrical Goods (FMEG) manufacturer, producing a wide range of world class industrial and consumer electrical products. The company has an extensive production and distribution network across India and the world. They manufactures 90% all its products in house. The company has an extremely strong global presence with manufacturing plants located across 12 manufacturing locations in India.
Business Challenges:
- Huge Master Data volume due to growing product lines
- Existing SAP system has not been meeting the MDM needs
- Non- Collaborative working environment
- Submission to create Material Master from multiple plant locations in Excel sheet to the Central IT team that led to numerous Master Data redundancy
- Accurate Master Data required as APO is being used extensively as their production planning tool
- Historical Mass Uploads resulted in inconsistent data quality
- External Material Number logic along with running serial number
- Excel Sheet being used to upload and change the master data and Materials being assigned to wrong material group
- No approval process and real time business validations in place
- No track of Bill of Material creation and change in the business
- Extensive user trainings, to make users familiar with ERP environment.
Business Benefits:
- Workflow Approval system
- Master Data description based on their specific product and business rules
- Proper External Material Master codification rule with running serial number
- Input of master data information from respective users with a decentralized approach
- Single Master Data Management system across the entire organization.
- Customization of the fields and Role based access e.g. Purchasing, Finance and Sales
- Mass Extension, Change, Upload using the MDO templates
- Track of each change in BOM with approvals and proper log management
- Paperless environment with end to end integration with ERP system
- Elimination of data duplication and multiple entry
- Effective communication of information / tasks
- Fully integrated on real time with SAP
Related Posts:
