Supply Chain

The flow of data is at the heart of today’s extended supply chains. Not only can poor data quality add significant cost to the business and drain resources, but this data is fundamental to performance metrics and shaping the entire business strategy.

Within the supply chain there are typically different types of users of different systems spread across wide geographies. Each has their own requirements and contexts resulting in data that is in many different formats with products in different categories, different units of measure and different languages and currencies.

Supply chain data needs to be exchanged between supply chain participants, suppliers and their trading partners, and if it is incomplete, inaccurate, or out-of-date, the negative effects are felt throughout the entire business. The quest for greater efficiencies means these exchanges are becoming more automated and as a result the efficiency of operations is becoming more dependent on the quality of the data – its completeness, consistency, accuracy and timeliness.

Datactics technology standardizes and re-engineers data, populating missing fields and eliminating duplications.  This allows for the smooth flow of accurate and timely data throughout your supply chain, driving revenue, cutting costs and optimizing inventory.

Using the Datactics Product Suite you can for example:

• Validate and verify data against Master Reference Files that you can tailor to your changing business needs.
• Ensure data is standardized and rapidly re-format product data from your suppliers.
• Be confident that data is not duplicated and will not be duplicated. A data quality firewall will ensure all data entering the organization is of the highest level of accuracy.
• Consolidate data from multiple sources to provide the best record of information about a product.

If the supply chain is of interest to you please look at the following Case Studies which highlight the real results achieved by organizations operating within this sector –

• NHS Supply Chain.  The UK NHS (National Health Service) supply chain operation manages product sourcing and delivery for over 620,000 products to more than 600 NHS Trusts and Healthcare organizations.  Datactics delivered an innovative and automated solution for effective product and catalogue matching to the NHS Supply Chain

• Terex (eCost). Terex is a Fortune 500 company and a diversified global manufacturer with revenues exceeding $9Bn.  With the successful delivery of Datactics solutions across 35 business units worldwide, Datactics enabled Terex to increase its purchasing leverage by consolidating spend data.

• Royal Phillips Electronics.  With high volumes of ever changing product data, Phillips had a need for data cleansing.  Using Datactics, 30% duplications were removed and the data remained clean.

• Terex (Global Benefit Tracking). Terex is a Fortune 500 company and a diversified global manufacturer with revenues exceeding $9Bn.  Following on from the successful delivery of the Data Quality Firewall and File Validation tool (see above), Terex contracted Datactics to effectively track the savings and expenditure obtained across its global supply chain.

• Utilities Asset Management.  The largest water and wastewater company in England and Wales had hundreds of thousands of assets that needed to be managed, but without data quality management plans in place the asset data had become both degraded and unusable.  Datactics delivered a ‘Master Data’ solution which reduced risk, enabled accurate tracking and increased asset utilisation.