Enel – Material & Service Master Data Governance and “Golden Record” implementation
Client Overview
Client Complexity
- Sector: Utilities / Oil & Gas
- Project: TAM Implementation
- 2M+ material records
- 8 different ERP systems
- 8 languages (e.g., English, Spanish, Romanian, Italian, Portuguese…)
- 23 countries
Challenges
Issues
– Lack of data harmonization:
- Different coding criteria
- Multiple taxonomy structures
- Poor categorization
– Language barriers
– Inventory proliferation
– Lack of spend transparency
Key Activities
Massive categorization and attribute enrichment of material master and spend data, including free-text and maverick spend
Centralized material creation support:
- Local requests
- Central approval workflow
- Automated duplicate checks, categorization, and naming conventions
“Golden Record” process to synchronize items across ERPs (single point of truth)
Data Accuracy: 95% in historical spend
Material Master Data Reduction: >20% via duplicate detection
Process Optimization: 95% improvement driven by data quality
The Results
Additional Benefits
- 1,000+ users involved
- 35% reduction in new material creation due to plant extension
- $30M+ in duplicate stock detected
- Enabled ERP migration (Mexico)
- Prepared for future ERP migrations
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Case studies
Creactives has use cases in many industries, but with a common pain: Large and complex multilingual datasets.
