Verdantis Material Master Data Management

Delivering standardized, de-duplicated & enriched Material Master

Automated Material Data Management

DRIVES ENSURESInventory optimizationMaterials cost reductionEnhanced productivity

High qualityScalability and consistencyLowered project cost due to automation

Clean, consolidated, enriched and maintained material master data is the foundation for optimized inventory, rationalized materials spend, and improved procurement processes, and is a key enabler to

realizing significant benefits from an ERP consolidation or upgrade initiative.

A WISE INVESTMENT> 50% faster then manual servicesLow risk (try before you buy)High return (typically > 10 x)

Verdantis Master Data Solutions

Material master data contains critical information about all the materials that an enterprise procures, produces, and keeps in

stock. It is the central repository of information for materials which contains descriptions of a variety of data elements and is

part of the core functionality of an ERP system used by distribution or manufacturing type function.

Harmonizing legacy material master data is a critical part of an ERP upgrade or consolidation initiative – more than 1/3rd of

the hard dollar benefits from an ERP project come from optimized inventory and reduced material costs. Yet most data

consolidation projects that use manual approaches or generic MDM tools tend to drag on forever, fail to meet data quality

parameters and go beyond their budget. Verdantis automated solutions combine deep industry specific domain expertise

and proven methodology to address these concerns and:

Ensure high data quality, consistency and scalability

Slash data consolidation project timelines by more than 50%

Lower project cost without sacrificing volume coverage or quality

Rationalized and enriched material master data is a vital enterprise asset that drives optimization of inventory and improves

shop floor productivity. It provides greater visibility into and control over material spend.

As organizations consolidate ERP systems, engage in strategic sourcing or launch enterprise wide spend management

initiatives, they find that the efficiency and accuracy of their business processes and reporting are dependent on the item

master data. More than just good housekeeping, a methodical and automated approach to cleansing, classifying, and

enriching item master data lays the foundation for the continuing success of many enterprise initiatives.

Given the intense pressure to increase operational efficiency, drive M&A synergies, and maximize ROI from ERP initiatives,

forward thinking companies in industries such as manufacturing, energy and utilities simply cannot afford to lose

competitive advantage due to material master data inefficiencies. Given the magnitude of the problem and the opportunity,

MMDM is not just a sound investment — it is an essential one.

VERDANTIS MDMSOLUTION SUITE

HARMONIZE

MATERIALHARMONIZE

PRODUCTHARMONIZE

A recent survey of manufacturing and utility/energy companies going for large ERP initiatives showed that harmonizing and

managing material master data was the #1 master data management priority

The integration of all material data in a single materials database eliminates the problem of data redundancy. This permits the data to be used by various departments/applications such as:

Accounting - Valuation and costing/price calculation information. Examples: standard price, past and future price, and current valuation.

Materials planning and control - Information for material requirements planning (MRP) and consumption-based planning/inventory control. Examples: safety stock level, planned delivery time, and reorder level for a material.

Purchasing - Data provided by Purchasing for a material. Examples: purchasing group (group of buyers) responsible for a material, over and under delivery tolerances, and the order unit.

Engineering - Engineering and design data on a material. Examples: CAD drawings, basic dimensions, and design specifications.

Storage/ warehousing - Information related to the storage/warehousing of a material. Examples: unit of issue, storage conditions, and packaging dimensions.

Forecasting - Information for predicting material requirements. Examples: how the material is procured, forecasting period, and past consumption/usage.

Sales and distribution - Information for sales orders and pricing. Examples: sales price, minimum order quantity, and the name of the sales department responsible for a certain material.

But Material Master Data Management can be a challenging task

High volume of data and multiple languages

Non-uniform Commodity Coding standards

Poorly classified data

Poorly Structured descriptions (inconsistent specifications or Missing specifications)

Incomplete data (missing part numbers or original Vendor names)

The Missing characteristics (attribute) information for items and parts.

Most material master data harmonization projects fail because manual services or generic Master Data Management tools lack the capability and scalability to serve the Global 1000 scenario.

Generic solutions that try to deal with all types of master data, focus more on harmonization & synchronization. They have simple rule-based work flows to ensure data integrity. On the other hand, Verdantis Material MDM is the best-in-its class solution that focuses on the critical master data harmonization process, and keeps it clean on an on-going basis.

Effective Material Master Data Management is critical for improving operational efficiency

BAD MATERIAL DATA GOOD MATERIAL DATA

ERP/MMIS : Increased adoption and efficient usage

Plant Maintenance : 5 - 8% increased uptime

Inventory/ Duplicates reduced by 5% - 30%

Material Procurement: Savings opportunities > 10%

Improved Cash Flow

Search inefficiency/ Reduced Employee Productivity

Reduced Inventory Visibility

Duplicate items/ Excessive new item introduction

Ineffective Category Management & Spend Leverage

High inventory Carrying Costs

Material Master Data Management is critical

AutoSpecAttribute extraction & de-duplication software for Material master

AutoClassClassification into pre-determined codes

Verdantis Material HarmonizeOverview

Material Harmonize is a fully automated solution for cleansing and enriching historical, material master data. It combines AI-based, software driven automation, domain expertise and proven methodology to ensure the success of ambitious item master cleansing and consolidation projects involving millions of items and multiple European and Asian languages. Material Harmonize automatically classifies, extracts attributes, enriches the data, checks for duplication, and enables superior discovery of identical/ alternate parts and items.

Key Benefits

High quality and consistency

Scalability

Reduced Total Cost of Project due to automation

Slashes data consolidation project timelines by over 50%

Improved ROI from ERP implementations

Force multiplier of internal teams of 10x

Verdantis Material Master Data ManagementVerdantis' Material MDM solutions – Material Harmonize and Material Integrity – combine automation and domain expertise to deliver complex material MDM projects on time and on budget, and ensure ongoing data integrity.

VERDANTISHARMONIZE

VERDANTISINTEGRITY ENTERPRISE

CUSTOMERINFRASTRUCTURE

Legacy 1

Legacy 2

Legacy 3

Legacy 4

VERDANTIS MATERIAL HARMONIZE

Automated Data Extraction, Normalization and Enrichment

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AutoSpec

AutoSpec

TaxonomySchema

Data Cleansing & Enrichment

Material MDM

Material MDM

Quality Check

Client AccessSchema Collab.

Approval

Classified, Normalized, Enriched, De-duplicated, Consolidated Data

Intelligent Web

Enrichment like Part Number, Category

Code

AutoCrawl

AutoNorm

AutoClass

Material Model

Automated Data Normalization

AutomatedMaterial Classification

Key Features

Combines AI based, software driven automation, domain expertise and proven methodology

SaaS based solution with configurable work-flows and data-management rules

Graphical process builder to manage distributed and virtual team processes

Productivity increasing automated technology like clustering, fuzzy logic matching, and learn-by-example

Taxonomy and language agnostic solution

Fully automated solution to cleanse

and enrich historical master data

MDM/MDG application to prevent duplication, and ensure on-going data integrity

Offered historically as A turn-key service

Now also offered as Licensed SaaS

Platform

Artificial Intelligence forms the bedrock of Verdantis’ automated MDM solution suite

AutoNormNormalization & validation of MFG, MPN and UOM

AutoCrawlIntelligent web spidering tool for Data harmonization

Verdantis Integrity Enterprise

Overview

Material Integrity is an intelligent master data management tool that manages the quality of master data on an ongoing basis, and keeps a cleansed, harmonized materials master permanently clean. It provides a one stop solution for master data managers who are responsible for maintaining the quality of materials data in the ERP system, and who need to prevent data duplication and enable enhanced discovery, visibility and compliance.

Material Integrity leverages AI-based software tools in a real-time mode for intelligent auto-creation of items and ongoing data quality maintenance-at source.

Verdantis Harmonize – Core Differentiators

Key benefits

Keeps data permanently clean

Reduces the burden of data quality maintenance of the data creator

Efficient Search, Increased visibility of parts within plants and across plants

Speeds up new item creation process.

Key Features

Intelligent, real-time master data management application that bolts onto leading ERP systems

Intelligent search and ‘auto-create’ capabilities. Prevents duplication at source, and ensures real-time/ ongoing data integrity

Handles unstructured data-cryptic, dirty data entered in the shopfloor

Powerful data governance and data modeling capabilities

ABAP Extractors for SAP systems

Data Consolidation

Generic adapters &

Custom Queries For non

SAP systems

Data Modeling

Data Governance

Technical Model MetaData Templates

Role/NeedBasedData

Templates

XMLbasedField

DefinitionAttributes schema

Taxonomy Schema

ApprovalRoles

ApprovalWorkflow

GovernancePolicies

Search

Context Sensitive Search (AutoClass,

AutoNorm & AutoSpec Guided)

AutoCreate Process

@source DataVaidation

AutoClass

AutoNorm

AutoSpec

Synchronization Infrastructure

DATA AGGREGATION

HARMONIZATION LAYER

SYNCHRONIZATION LAYER

MATERIAL INTEGRITY ARCHITECTURE

Batch Export

ERP Adapters

SOA Enabled

API’s

Automated data Cleansing for your historical Master Data delivers higher quality and consistency than manual processes

Designed for Master Data managers to define and implement enterprise level master data management strategy

Built-in specification sheets for more than 3000 categories

Coverage for MRO, chemicals, direct materials for various industries

Intelligent duplicate identification based on attributes

Robust QA process for L1 & L2 duplicate master data records

Point Solutions for each master data structure and object

Automated Classification of materials into standard Taxonomies like UNSPSC, eCl@ss or Custom taxonomies

Ability to populate missing attributes values from a content repository and to automatically populate the content on demand.

Automated extraction of specification values from the source description

Data Output Options – Long and Short Descriptions in customized formats

Built-in module to provide automatic Nouns and Modifiers for materials and ability to configure the descriptions required by the customer

Verdantis Integrity - Functional Features

Accurate, up-to-date, consistent, enriched and de-duplicated material master data

Handles unstructured data-cryptic, dirty data entered in the shop-floor

Short and long description generation to ensure enriched and rationalized descriptions

Timely identification of supply chain disruptions, risks and material scarcities

Robust platform for future MDM/ERP harmonization or upgrade initiatives

Attribute based search advantage for better material identification, tracking and reuse

Interactive dashboard for collaboration among plants, manufacturing materials, business units and other cross-functional divisions

Faster material procurement processes, lower process costs

Centralized Creation and Management of Material Data

Enforce compliance with pre-defined standards and formats

Governance process to ensure material data quality at source

Short and long description generation to ensure enriched and rational ized descriptions

Accurate, up-to-date, consistent, enriched and de-duplicated Material Master Data

Improved material identification and reuse that reduces plant downtime and lost revenue opportunities

Enhanced collaboration between plants and manufacturing facilities, and across cross-functional divisions

Timely identification of supply chain disruptions, risks and material scarcities

Robust platform for future MDM/ERP harmonization or upgrade initiatives

Get all material related information in one centralized location

Automated and highly configurable workflows to implement data stewardship and security

Adaptable and customized data replication to source systems with data available cross-functionally

Attribute based search advantage for better material identification, tracking and reuse

On-demand real-time validation of information added by any party

Easy to deploy, use and scale up

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JD Edwards

Oracle

SAP

and OthersVerdantis Material Integrity

Material Master Data

Management that

integrates with

your ERP

backbone

Materials can now be

closely knitted across

the enterprise for an

efficient supply

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Access to

accurate

material data for

procurement and plant

management teams

Real-time Data

Synchronization

that allows single

version of clean,

accurate material data

Verdantis Material Integrity Framework

Verdantis Material Integrity - Objective Materials Management

Verdantis Integrity - Key Benefits

Verdantis Material Integrity

Plants ,Manufacturing facilities and Global

Locations

Real-time datasynchronization

Increased plant uptime and employee productivity with reduced supply chain disruptions and lead times

Improved collaboration across plants for better synergies and supply chain process improvement

Access to accurate material and MRO data leading to increased cross-plant visibility

Optimize ROI from enterprise and supply chain IT systems like ERP, MRP, EAM, SCM, etc.

Ensure information flowing into the all the systems is approved, accurate and complete

Reduce total cost of ownership of material data and IT infrastructure

Ensure contract compliance by reducing maverick purchasing

Ensure enterprise wide material visibility for informed procurement decision making

Reduced order fulfillment times, transaction processing costs

Maximize ROI from M&As by leveraging the inventory base from all the merging entities

Visibility of normalized and enriched material data across and beyond the enterprise

Easily manage and track inventory levels to reduce, manage and plan for supply chain risks and mitigation