Case · Master data centralisation · Mining and metals

Four master data domains centralised for eight business units

A mining and metals group with more than 30 assets needed one version of its cargo, container, location and packaging data. The request came from eight business units working in three legacy IT systems.

  • Mining and metals
  • 8 business units
  • 3 legacy systems
  • MDM
  • 51,000records reconciled across 8 units
  • −27%catalogue size
  • 4domains: cargo, containers, locations, packaging
  • 8business units, including sea and river ports

The task

One set of logistics master data for ports and plants

Each unit kept its own records in its own system. The group needed one standard, clean data and rules for maintaining the four domains in its MDM system.

What we did

Design, migration and cleansing

  • Solution design: migration approach, roles and data sources
  • A data migration template and field mapping
  • Master data cleansed, enriched with missing information, and new records created to the target template
  • Cleansing methodology, MDM maintenance rules and a user guide
  • Mapping of the 4 domains for 8 business units

Scope

Four domains, eight units

  • Cargo, containers, locations and packaging
  • 8 business units: sea and river ports and the main production sites
  • 3 legacy IT systems
  • 51,000 records

Results

One standard for logistics master data

  • 51,000 records reconciled across 8 business units, cleansed to the approved data standards and enriched

  • The catalogue reduced by 27%

  • Centralisation processes for the 4 domains agreed and in place for all sea and river ports and the main production sites

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Tell us about your units, systems and master data domains. We will propose a plan and the first steps.

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    Task and systems

    What you have now and what you need

  2. 2
    Quick assessment

    Data, processes and IT landscape

  3. 3
    Work plan

    Stages, timeline and scope

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