Material Master Globalization: Data Without Borders
From the Americas to Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and everywhere in between, IMA’s data cleansing services have touched virtually...
Best-Practice MRO Product Classification and Coding
As we’ve discussed in previous blog posts and white papers, MRO & Indirect Materials often represent one of the single largest cost...
5 Things to Consider When Formatting MRO Material Master Data for an ERP or EAM System
Proper data formatting is essential when uploading and migrating materials data to an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Enterprise...
Causes and Effects of Low Quality Material Master (MRO) Data
Data quality, or lack thereof, is a common challenge that companies face in today’s business environment. As manufacturing and...
How To Generate Higher ROI From MRO Data Cleansing
With an increasing emphasis on master data quality and cost reduction, more and more companies are implementing Data Cleansing projects...
MRO Spend Reduction PART 2: Spend Analysis
In Part 1 of our MRO Spend Reduction blog, we discussed how Inventory Optimization and Disposition can reveal quick returns and long-term...
MRO Spend Reduction PART 1: Inventory Optimization
Many manufacturing and asset-intensive companies will agree that MRO / Indirect Materials represents one of the single largest cost...
Data Cleansing in Parallel With An ERP Implementation
An ERP implementation is a major undertaking for any organization, regardless of company size. Whether you are upgrading your existing...
Is Internal Catalog Management Really More Cost Effective?
Following any data cleansing project, the challenge becomes maintaining ongoing integrity and consistency of the item master as new...
Introduction to Vendor Master Data Cleansing
Although we constantly find ourselves promoting, educating, and focusing on the Material Master side of data cleansing, it is important...
