Centralize the creation and maintenance of material master data.

Optimize quality: Clear processes save time and money

How to create professional workflows to keep material master data “clean” in the long term. With a guided process in the simus classmate software, you avoid duplicates and errors in material master data and effectively limit administrative effort and costs.

Materialstammdaten
  • Clean, accurate database

  • No duplicates

  • Clear responsibilities

  • Automated processes

  • Relief for employees

Materialstamm-Anlageprozess

Create and maintain material master data centrally: Advantages of a software-supported process

Automating material master data management with our software significantly reduces the risk of human error and improves data quality. Centralized maintenance (always synchronized in the ERP system!) ensures that all departments always have access to the most up-to-date information. Material procurement, warehouse management and production planning become more efficient, resulting in time and cost savings. Employees are relieved by the clearly defined processes and can cope better with the growing volumes of data.

Material master data: How the defined process for systematic creation works

The professional creation and maintenance of material master data has far-reaching effects in all areas of the company. Those who ensure the quality of their data in the long term achieve significant cost and time savings within the company. A well thought-out process avoids duplicates and errors in the material master data and ensures quality in the long term.

  1. The designer searches the database for a required component, but cannot find a suitable material.
  2. Should he now wish to create a new material master, he will be guided via simus classmate to a form in which he can define his requirements. This form will already be populated with data resulting from his search query or a template. He will only need to add any missing details.
  3. In order to check the necessity of the material system and the quality of the data, a second employee reviews the request: the master data coordinator. He receives it automatically via the system for checking. Using the convenient similarity search function integrated in classmate, the coordinator first ensures that the requirements cannot be covered by an existing component.
  4. Once this has been clarified and all data is complete and correct, he approves the application.
  5. If data is missing or content is unclear, the coordinator sends the application back to the designer at the touch of a button. The designer can improve the application and resubmit it for review.
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Material master maintained? Further processes can build on this!

Once the application has been approved, the data is automatically created in SAP or another ERP system. The applicant and other employees involved are informed of the confirmed material master and can use it immediately.

Subsequent processes, such as the maintenance of data by work preparation or purchasing, can also be defined and triggered automatically. Standardized texts are then generated or a goods tariff number is calculated on the basis of the classification parameters without any further intervention. The maintenance of existing material masters can also be handled effectively with simus classmate.

More than 250 companies trust in simus systems on their way to data excellence

Körber

“For around 80 percent of our components, simus classmate calculates the manufacturing costs in advance with a hit rate of 95 percent. The designers build up their own knowledge and achieve their cost targets better without our support.”

“The fact that all material master data can be found quickly simplifies and speeds up the various maintenance and repair tasks.”

Koch Pac-Systeme

“We are very taken with the solution’s versatility and see classmate PLAN as a centerpiece for our efforts to make the manufacturing process leaner, more flexible and more cost effective.”

Creating and maintaining a material master - made easy

The video provides an overview of the process for creating and maintaining material masters, as well as the benefits this approach offers.

Optimise Material Masters - Clear Workflows Save Time and Money

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