- Universal Use Case
ACCELERATE & DE-RISK ERP CONSOLIDATION
How Profisee can help organizations achieve anticipated operational efficiencies and cost savings from ERP consolidation with less risk of project failure, cost overruns, or delays.
ERP Consolidation Enablement
ERP consolidation is widely known to deliver operational efficiencies and reduce IT costs. However, ERP consolidation projects are also widely known to have a high failure rate, are often over budget, and almost always delayed. With MDM, organizations can remove some of the complexity and risk to ERP consolidation to deliver anticipated business benefits on-time and on-budget.
Data Domains
Customer, Product, Supplier, Reference
Business Problem
Excess costs, delays, impeded operations
Teams Impacted
IT, LOB Stakeholders, Leadership
MDM Impact
Automate alignment between source & target
Business Problem
Data Strategy
Outcomes Business Problem
Excess Cost and Delays Due to Data Issues
- Each ERP System “speaks its own language”: Master data defines each ERP system but has grown an accumulated in isolation. There is no inherent alignment, and often even differences in data granularity.
- Data continues to change: Throughout planning, design, and execution of the consolidation project, business goes on and source system data continues to change.
- Ad-hoc mappings quickly become out-of-date: Mappings from source to target are often manually created, tracked in spreadsheets, and quickly grow obsolete, incomplete, or inaccurate.
- Unforeseen complexity, additional effort: An often surprising degree of inherent misalignment of data between source and target systems leads to unforeseen effort, additional cost & delays, and even possible business interruptions.
Data Strategy
MDM to Aggregate, Continuously Align
- Fill In the Gaps: MDM brings advanced automation to continuously map source system master data, reference data & business definitions so that mappings are always consistent and up-to-date.
- Identify Errors and Holes: Gaps in mappings, invalid values, or incomplete data can be identified automatically and queued to data steward teams for easy remediation.
- Empower ERP teams with automation: Leverage robust fuzzy matching, intuitive user interfaces and data-driven workflows to empower ERP teams to efficiently map source to target data.
- Continuous Data Monitoring: MDM includes mechanisms for continuous data quality monitoring and validation, automatic mapping of new master data values – MDM becomes a self-maintaining “Rosetta Stone” between systems.
Outcomes
ERP Consolidation Benefits Realized Sooner
- Project delays avoided: ERP data teams are empowered with efficiency, data problems identified proactively and handled with intelligent automation.
- Unforeseen costs avoided: Data cleanup efforts streamlined. Issues / bugs / errors due to faulty data proactively avoided.
- System errors due to bad data avoided: Unforeseen errors uncovered during UAT or worse, during attempted go-live cutover, are identified and remediated in advance.
- Business interruption avoided: Failed go-live attempts, or unexpected system errors/behavior post go-live can lead to business interruptions – avoided with proactive data management.
- ERP consolidation benefits realized: Operational efficiencies, reduced IT cost, and reduced cyber risk benefits realized, program ROI assumptions met.
