Water/Waste Processing - Feb 2012
equally on board and engaged in the process The solution provider knows what its doing You need to listen to what it tells you and work hard to get your stakeholders completely on board At the end of the day its your data and you need to be an active participant in defining how the solution provider is going to help you clean it up Karson recommends forming a team on which each plant or business unit is represented You need people who know their data and can speak with authority about it You need to listen to the experts and be prepared to answer questions they ask Otherwise you can still end up with duplicates and other problems that can be difficult and time consuming to remedy Karson warns Controlling Information Creation In addition to harmonization of the master data Water Technologies required a bolt on solution to control the information that flows into SAP and maintain it Zynapse Integrity tool was easy to configure to match Water Technologies desired process and also helped Water Technologies refine and execute its new control process Encouraging people to copy existing items increases productivity because they dont have to fill in all of the required attribute information and there is less opportunity for differentiation Forcing users to enter good data ensures that part descriptions especially the 40 character short descriptions that typically show up on bills of materials are always easy to read and interpret correctly in procurement www waterwaste com Water Waste Processing February 2012 19 engineering and on the plant floors Benefits The ERP Harmonization and Master Data Management Initiative that Siemens Water Technologies had undertaken reaped benefits across various functions of the organization Process standardization drives continuous improvement Provides consistent and actionable information Enables elimination of duplicated data entry across applications Improves spend and supply management Enables part standardization and lean inventory Improves success of SAP implementation Facilitates interfaces between and among applications Enables centralized maintenance and change management Zynapse www zynapse com Write In 203 Write In 111
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