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Quality of material master data and its effect on the usefulness of distributed ERP systems

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Gerhard F. Knolmayer,

Michael RöthlinAuthors Info & Claims

CoMoGIS'06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Advances in Conceptual Modeling: theory and practice

Pages 362 - 371

https://doi.org/10.1007/11908883_43

Published: 06 November 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Master data is a main component of most information systems. In distributed and heterogeneous organizations, problems of data quality may arise if several Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, customized with respect to local business needs and objectives, use subsets of common master data. In this paper we describe data management issues in a large organization, running 10 instances of the SAP R/3 system. For coordinating purposes, com mon elements of materials master data are entered via a centralized application and subsequently distributed to the affected instances. However, this master data management approach did not avoid massive data quality problems, which are, for instance, hampering the computation of informative key performance values and the effective realization of inventory reduction programs. The paper discusses possible approaches for improving data quality in this situation and in other cases of distributed ERP systems.

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CoMoGIS'06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Advances in Conceptual Modeling: theory and practice

November 2006

456 pages

ISBN:3540477039

Editors:
John F. Roddick
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
,
V. Richard Benjamins
iSOCO, Adelaide, Spain
,
Samira Si-said Cherfi
CEDRIC-CNAM, Adelaide, France
,
Roger Chiang
University of Cincinnati, Adelaide, France
,
Christophe Claramunt
Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France

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Bender BBertheau CKörppen TLauppe HGronau N(2022)A proposal for future data organization in enterprise systems—an analysis of established database approachesInformation Systems and e-Business Management10.1007/s10257-022-00555-620:3(441-494)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10257-022-00555-6
Alkkiomäki V(2018)The role of service-oriented architecture as a part of the business modelInternational Journal of Business Information Systems10.1504/IJBIS.2016.07476421:3(368-387)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1504/IJBIS.2016.074764

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