Legacy material files used inconsistent part descriptions, revision references and supplier identities across plants. For the Component and Supplier Record Migration in Germany workload, channel teams had to compare supplier sources manually, slowing publication and increasing the risk of inconsistent product records.
An industrial manufacturer preparing legacy master data for ERP migration.
The primary client-side owner was the Master Data Programme Manager. That role coordinated source access, destination rules, reviewer availability and acceptance of each delivery. SDES would provide controlled production capacity; the client would retain authority over the business meaning of the records.
Problem: Legacy material files used inconsistent part descriptions, revision references and supplier identities across plants. For the Component and Supplier Record Migration in Germany workload, channel teams had to compare supplier sources manually, slowing publication and increasing the risk of inconsistent product records.
Required solution: Approved part numbers, plant codes and supplier IDs controlled migration, with engineering equivalence and obsolete-status decisions excluded. Within the Component and Supplier Record Migration in Germany workflow, the team preserved supplier provenance and applied approved mappings only where the source supported the destination value.
Planned outcome: The manufacturer received a structured import file and traceable queues for revision, supplier and classification conflicts. As a result of the Component and Supplier Record Migration in Germany workflow, the client gained a repeatable catalog workflow in which ready records and supplier questions were clearly separated.
The completed scope covered 64,200 component, supplier and plant relationship records — completed in 8 weeks. Effort also reflected field count, document readability, relationship complexity, exception frequency and destination validation.
The client defines required fields, accepted formats, controlling sources and decisions that must be escalated. The operating guide records those boundaries before entry begins.
The review covered the stated volume of 64,200 component, supplier and plant relationship records — completed in 8 weeks, including ordinary records, incomplete sources and difficult relationships.
The pilot uses Bills of material, part masters, supplier files, plant spreadsheets and revision tables. Questions are returned with exact record and source references so approved answers can enter the production guide.
Critical-parts pilot, plant-by-plant releases and final cross-plant duplicate review. Completed, held, excluded and rejected items remain distinguishable throughout production.
Part-number integrity, revision alignment, unit consistency, supplier identity and plant relationship receive focused checks. Unsupported assumptions do not enter the clean output merely to complete a record.
Batch totals, exception counts and source manifests are compared before final release. The handoff identifies what was delivered, held and returned for client direction.
The review focus would cover Part-number integrity, revision alignment, unit consistency, supplier identity and plant relationship. Sampling depth and second-pass review would be agreed according to field significance and source quality rather than advertised as an unsupported universal accuracy percentage.
Commercial terms and engineering drawings were excluded where they were not necessary for field mapping.
Engineering and procurement approved equivalence, obsolescence, sourcing and material classification.
Master Data Programme Manager or another authorised owner would resolve exceptions that change meaning, identity, status, classification or commercial treatment. SDES would document the question and apply only the approved resolution.
The handoff would follow the destination structure and preserve enough source information for review and recovery. Delivery timing would follow Critical-parts pilot, plant-by-plant releases and final cross-plant duplicate review.
ERP import tables
supplier-part relationship file
revision-conflict register and plant reconciliation
The client would validate the pilot before scale and review each scheduled release. Rejections caused by entry error would be corrected against the approved guide. New rules, changed destination fields or newly supplied sources would be recorded as controlled changes so earlier batches were not silently processed under later assumptions.
The work on Component and Supplier Record Migration gave our team a dependable handoff. Confirmed records were ready for operational use, while uncertain items came back with clear source references. Our reviewers could focus on the decisions that required internal ownership instead of rechecking the full dataset. Wonderful job by the SDES team; the completed output was exceptional.
