Reduce ERP Consolidation Risks with Oracle Master Data Management
- by Dain C. Hansen
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Reducing the Risk of ERP Consolidation starts first and
foremost with your Data.This is nothing new; companies with multiple misaligned ERP
systems are often putting inordinate risk on their business. It can translate to
too much inventory, long lead times, and shipping issues from poorly organized
and specified goods. And don’t forget the finance side! When goods are shipped and
promises are kept/not kept there’s the issue of accounts. No single chart of
counts translates to no accountability.
So – I’ve decided. I need to consolidate!
Well, you can’t consolidate ERP applications [for that
matter any of your applications] without first considering your data. This
means looking at how your data is being integrated by these ERP systems, how it
is being synchronized, what information is being shared, or not being shared. Most importantly, making sure that the data is
mastered. What is the best way to do this? In the recent webcast: Reduce
ERP consolidation Risks with Oracle Master Data Management we outlined 3 key
guidelines:
#1: Consolidate your Product
Data#2: Consolidate your
Customer, Supplier (Party Data)
#3: Consolidate your
Financial Data
Together these help customers achieve reduced risk, better customer
intimacy, reducing inventory levels, elimination of product
variations, and finally a single master chart of accounts. In the case of Oracle's customer Zebra Technologies, they were able to consolidate over 140 applications by mastering their data. Ultimately this gave them 60% cost savings for the year on IT spend. Oracle’s Solution for
ERP Consolidation: Master Data Management
Oracle's
enterprise master data management (MDM) can play a big role in ERP
consolidation. It includes a set of products that consolidates and maintains
complete, accurate, and authoritative master data across the enterprise and
distributes this master information to all operational and analytical
applications as a shared service.
It’s
optimized to work with any application source (not just Oracle’s) and can
integrate using technology from Oracle Fusion Middleware (i.e. GoldenGate for
data synchronization and real-time replication or ODI with its E-LT optimized
bulk data and transformation capability). In addition especially for ERP
consolidation use cases it’s important to leverage the AIA and SOA capabilities
as part of Fusion Middleware to connect these multiple applications together
and relay the data into the correct hub.
Oracle’s MDM
strategy is a unique offering in the industry, one that has common elements
across the top and bottom in Middleware, BI/DW, Engineered systems combined
with Enterprise Data Quality
to enable comprehensive Data Governance at all levels. In addition, Oracle MDM provides
the best-in-class capabilities to master all variations of data, including customer,
supplier, product, financial data. But ultimately at the center of Oracle MDM
is your data, making it more trusted, making it secure and accessible as part
of a role-based approach, and getting it to make sense to you in any situation,
whether it’s a specific ERP process like we talked about or something that is
custom to your organization.
To learn
more about these techniques in ERP consolidation watch
our webcast or goto our Oracle MDM website at www.oracle.com/goto/mdm
