Mid-Market Industrial Manufacturer (representative) · Manufacturing · United States · 9 weeks
Duplicate master data cut and S/4HANA migration unblocked in 9 weeks
A representative engagement. The trial conversion had failed because the master data would not load cleanly. We profiled, deduplicated, and reconciled the data, and the migration came off the critical path.
Challenge
A roughly 2,200-person manufacturer on SAP ECC for sixteen years had a trial conversion fail. The same vendor existed five times, materials sat under several part numbers across plants, and units of measure did not conform. The system integrator treated cleansing as a small line item, and it slipped. Finance could not reconcile and the go-live date was at risk.
Outcome
The trial conversion that had failed now passed. The data workstream came off the critical path, the integrator held its go-live date, and finance reconciled on the first close after cutover.
Results
- 9 wks From kickoff to a clean, reconciled load
- 41k to 12k Duplicate vendor and material records resolved
- $640K Annual reconciliation and rework labor avoided
- On time Go-live held with zero data-related slippage
The platform work was never our problem. Our data was, and it was the one thing nobody had measured. Thinklytics found the real condition of it, fixed it, and gave us a number we could take to the board.
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