Regional Wholesale Distributor (representative) · Distribution & Logistics · United States · 7 weeks
Inventory and customer data made S/4HANA-ready in 7 weeks
A representative engagement. Leadership was being pushed toward a date and a budget with no read on the data. We ran a Blueprint and Readiness Assessment, then executed the priority remediation.
Challenge
A roughly 1,400-person distributor on SAP ECC lived on inventory accuracy. The material master had grown messy with duplicate SKUs, inconsistent units of measure, and a large tail of obsolete items. Customer records were duplicated across legacy acquisitions. Leadership feared committing to a date and repeating the stalled migrations they had heard about from peers.
Outcome
Leadership committed to a plan grounded in evidence rather than hope. The data that would have stalled the program was cleaned before the date was set, and the dependency map protected inventory reporting through the move.
Results
- 7 wks Assessment plus priority remediation
- 58 to 89 Master data quality score, before and after
- 31,000 Obsolete and dark records flagged for retirement
- $420K Projected rework and overrun avoided
We were about to commit to a date with our fingers crossed. The assessment told us, with evidence, exactly where we stood and what to fix first. We went in knowing the data was ready instead of hoping it was.
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