Manufacturing

Manufacturers deal with very large volumes of product data, whether manufacturing new goods for sale or as part of their maintenance and repair operations.

Many items of product data are not described correctly or usefully within ERP and other systems such as Spend and Contract Management, many values being 'dummy' or default. This occurs through a combination of automated and manual input; for example, attributes are sometimes placed in unstructured descriptions and units of measure are different or contradictory for the same product. The product data may be sourced from a multitude of different suppliers in a variety of formats and languages.

Datactics technology cleanses and standardizes content by re-engineering attributes using master reference files. This includes profiling, extracting abbreviations from unstructured descriptions such as color and unit of measure. The accurate and standardized data can be fed into a database which becomes the master data hub for all enterprise processes. Your product data is kept clean using Datactics Data Quality Firewall.

The Datactics Product Suite can:

• Validate information against your own business specific categorizations and taxonomies.
• Verify product data against Master Reference Files.
• Restructure and standardize data to ensure consistency in description with common terms and abbreviations and ensure correct identification and remove duplication.
• Consolidate data from different systems providing a single source of product information.
• Deduplicate and merge information automatically or after manual review depending on threshold scoring.
• Protect data in real time preventing poor quality data polluting your systems.
• Easily handle mixed language data sets, even where different languages and different character sets are used in the same field.
• Maintain a single view of product, supplier and customer information.
• Use federated search techniques to screen suppliers against denied persons or country lists.
• Ensure that data is clean and valid for the purposes of Business Intelligence and reporting.