{"id":320,"date":"2016-10-31T06:38:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T06:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/?p=320"},"modified":"2016-10-31T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T07:11:14","slug":"master-data-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/2016\/10\/31\/master-data-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 causes of bad Master Data Management in ERP systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Master Data Management (MDM) is \u201ca set of disciplines and processes for ensuring the accuracy, completenessand consistency of the important types of reference data in the enterprise, across different applications (ERP, Financial software, Planning software…) and across multiple business processes, functional areas, organizations, geographies and channels.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Therefore, insuring a good management of our master data will lead to a consistence and valuable use of our ERP system. In this post, we will present the top 5 reasons that can lead us to encounter problems dealing with the SAP ERP system within a global enterprise architecture. Meanwhile, please keep in mind that MDM operations are wider than the ERP itself: it goes beyond one application to ensure data consistency across platforms (from different vendors).<\/p>\n

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  1. MDM capabilities provided by one single ERP vendor is not flexible enough to deliver consistency for other applications.<\/li>\n
  2. Master data is critical and can\u2019t be proactively managed within an ERP system but needs independent capabilities.<\/li>\n
  3. ERP products were not mainly designed \u00a0to support MDM operations,\u00a0\u00a0instead the they present MDM as add-ins features to handle data.<\/li>\n
  4. Mastering your data in an ERP is much more difficult with more than one instance (or with different ERPs altogether).<\/li>\n
  5. Not using a decentralized, independent\u00a0MDM hub to have a workspace between the\u00a0transactional and analytic<\/a> systems (please check my OLTP OLAP: a small clarification <\/a>article). The hub will help to perform data management operations in the back office systems and the data warehouse.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Conclusion<\/a>: ERP systems are simply not the right place to master data. Despite all the positives of ERP, flexibility is usually not associated with it. ERP doesn\u2019t offer the tools to manage master data in the ways required by today\u2019s complex organizations. Although it excels at transaction processing, it isn\u2019t designed for active management of critical master data. Therefore, the use of an MDM Hub is mandatory to support complex enterprise applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Master Data Management (MDM) is \u201ca set of disciplines and processes for ensuring the accuracy, completenessand consistency of the important types of reference data in the enterprise, across different applications (ERP, Financial software, Planning software…) and across multiple business processes, functional areas, organizations, geographies and channels.\u201d Therefore, insuring a good management of our master data … Continue reading Top 5 causes of bad Master Data Management in ERP systems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":1,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"chedly","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/author\/chedly\/"},"qubely_comment":1,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Master Data Management (MDM) is \u201ca set of disciplines and processes for ensuring the accuracy, completenessand consistency of the important types of reference data in the enterprise, across different applications (ERP, Financial software, Planning software…) and across multiple business processes, functional areas, organizations, geographies and channels.\u201d Therefore, insuring a good management of our master data…","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/erpsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}