Modern supply chains rely on accurate and consistent master data to run efficiently. Unfortunately, with all of the disruptions, changes, and challenges facing companies today, the once reliable supply chain management processes developed over the past few decades can no longer be relied on.
Let us show you how, using Precisely’s Automate and EnterWorks platforms, you can improve the integrity of your master data in a dynamic supply chain through automation, syndication, and standardization.
Precisely Solutions For Manufacturing Supply Chains
1. How to Transform Your
Supply Chain with
Precisely
SAP®️ process automation and multi-
domain master data management
Andrew Hayden | Sr. Product Marketing Mgr.
Jason Lyngaas | Product Marketing Mgr.
3. The global leader
in data integrity
software
Our data integrity
software, data enrichment
products, and strategic
services deliver accuracy,
consistency, and context
to power confident
business decisions.
Brands you trust, trust us
Data leaders partner with us
of the Fortune
100
99
Customers in more than
100
2,500
employees
customers
12,000
countries
Integrate
Enrich Locate
Verify
Data
Integrity
Suite
4. Data
Process
Tackle process and data together
• Product launches
• Product data management
• Customer onboarding &
management
• Vendor onboarding & management
• Asset management
• Financial master data
and more…
5. Improve the quality of
your most important
data
Go faster Be more agile
Compete and thrive
6. Multi-domain data
hub and PIM
A unique
product
portfolio
Everything you need to get
faster processes and better data
EnterWork
s
9. Start in the middle
9
Upstream
Process
components
• Materials
• Vendors
• Production Planning
• Manufacturing
Operations
• Other systems
Downstream
Process
components
• Sales and Distribution
• Customers
• Other Systems
10. Common product challenges
10
• Many raw and semi-finished
materials
• Multiple vendors and suppliers
• Complex data objects
• Complex processes
• Manual data management
& spreadsheets
• Often multiple plants
• Frequent changes
• Complex customer environment
• Tight margins
• Seasonal exceptions
• Promotional packaging
• Sales alignment
• Multiple systems involved
• SAP in the middle of it all
11. Upstream process components
Plus other, non-SAP systems
Vendors
Procurement
Product
Development
Controlling Finance Materials
Production
Planning
Warehouse
Manufacturing
Operations
12. Upstream data & objects
12
Upstream Process components
Other systems
Bill of
Materials
(BoM)
Raw
materials
(ROH)
Vendor
Master
Routings
& PV
Purchase
info
record
(PIR)
Costing
(Mark &
Release)
Material
extension
s
Source
list
Material
status
update
Semi-
finished
materials
(HALB)
Finished
products
materials
(FERT)
Packaging
materials
(VERP)
Master
recipes
Trading
goods
materials
(HAWA)
Pricing
14. A complete automation platform
Excel to SAP
Exchange data with SAP
quickly and easily using
Excel
Form &
Workflow
Automate and accelerate
SAP business processes
with integrated forms and
workflows
Excel Workflow
Automate and accelerate
SAP business processes
through Excel file
management workflows
Process
Automation
Data
Automation
15. Automate Studio
Precisely Automate portfolio
15
STANDALONE
Exchange data with SAP
quickly and easily using Excel
• Data creation and maintenance
• Data migration
• Operational reporting
• Data stewardship
GOVERNED
Share, manage, & control Precisely
across the enterprise
• Basic 2-step workflow
• Centralized management
• Granular control of licenses, users &
policies
• Extensive audit and ROI reporting
• Server-side job execution
WORKFLOW-ENABLED
Automate and streamline SAP
processes using workflows
• Advanced form and workflow
capabilities
• Advanced data stewardship capabilities
via web forms
• Detailed process analytics
Business users
work in Excel
Business users work
in Excel or web forms
Automate Studio Manager
Business users
work in Excel
Automate Evolve
+
16. Dynamic
process linking
Choice of forms or
Excel front end
Smart, tailored,
role-based forms
Flexible, extensible
solution architecture
Granular user &
policy management
SmartTables
Live SAP data
validation
Automated data
exchange with
SAP
Audit trails for
process & data
Process
dashboards &
reports
Look for a complete set of
capabilities
17. Make an impact across your SAP
landscape
Financial
Accounting
FI
Controlling
CO
Sales and
Distribution
SD
Materials
Management
MM
Plant
Maintenance
PM
Asset
Management
AM
Project
Systems
PS
Production
Planning
PP
Quality
Management
QM
Human
Resources
HR
18. Digitize and accelerate your product data processes:
end-to-end
GO
Vendor and Materials
Management
LAUNCH
Operational
Create SAP
materials
Create
supporting
SAP data
LAUNCH
Market
Create sell-side
content & digital
assets
Tailor content by
channel & market
Syndicate to
channel
partners
Automate Platform EnterWorks
Make Sell
19. More than a 360°
view
19
Get the product intelligence you need to make better decisions
Recommendations
Image metadata
Associated items
Product details & specifications
Cross-sell items
Print materials
SKU numbers
Product support information
Rich product descriptions & copy elements
Documents
Product Comparisons
Barcodes
Up-sell items
SEO elements
Regional availability
International sales information
Logos, style guides, & brand
assets
Exchange standards
Promos
GDSN specs
Videos
Pricing Product IDs
Images
Assets
Customers
Locations Data from
Other
Domains
Suppliers
Customer-facing
Product
Information
Internal
Reference
Information &
Metadata
Regulatory compliance details
Analytics on
transactional,
behavioral, &
unstructured data
20. Business-
friendly
UI
Let the system do the work
for you
• An intuitive browser-based UI.
• Manage by exception and always
know what to work on next.
• Get 30+ out-of-the-box actionable
widgets.
• Use visual indicators with click-
through capabilities.
• Make it easy to find products with
powerful search capabilities.
20
21. Syndicate and
synchronize
data
With internal business
systems
• Setup one way or bi-directional
data integrations to your
business systems and digital
platforms.
• Integrate via multiple methods,
protocols and approaches,
including open APIs and
microservices.
On-demand
Real-time Scheduled
Data exchange options
22. Our design
principles
Words we live (and code)
by
Presentation name
22
• Be extremely flexible
• Configure, not code
• Be open and extensible
• Handle enterprise complexity without being complex
• Be highly scalable and secure
• Enable granular control
• Ensure the highest level of data quality
23. A hub for better business, not just
better data
PRODUCT
EnterWork
s
DATA TARGETS
Systems Data lakes
Reports Databases
Data pools Apps
DATA SOURCES
Internal & external systems
Spreadsheets & docs
Databases
Third-party data services
People
MANAGE & VIEW
Master, application, reference, and
metadata across domains.
AGGREGATE & VIEW
Analytics on transactional,
behavioral, and unstructured data.
VENDOR
CUSTOMER
ASSET
LOCATION
MATERIAL
Handle multiple domains on a single instance
24. Key capabilities
summary
24
Configurable
products
Easy attribute
management
Relationship
linking
Hierarchy
management
Golden record
management
Consolidated
product views
Product
intelligence
Human & system
data enrichment
OPEN, EXTENSIBLE INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK
Product data
syndication &
synchronization
Platform and data
accessible to third-
party apps
Able to leverage
peer services
and apps.
Localization
Variant
management
Channel-specific
content
Get trusted information where it needs to go fast and
achieve more with third-party technology.
Audit, rollback
& lineage
DATA QUALITY & GOVERNANCE
COLLABORATIVE WORKFLOWS
Get, high-quality product information that’s consistent and compliant.
Get new products and updated content to market faster.
INTUITIVE, DYNAMIC ROLE-BASED UI
Empower business teams to work smarter and faster
AI/ML
EnterWork
s
25. MORE THAN JUST
TRUSTED CUSTOMER DATA
Get cross-domain
intelligence to
drive incremental
revenue and
reduce costs
25
PRODUCT
EnterWork
s
MANAGE
Master, application, reference, and
metadata across domains.
AGGREGATE & VIEW
Transactional, behavioral, and
unstructured data.
VENDOR
CUSTOMER
ASSET
LOCATION
MATERIAL
26. Let’s continue the
conversation…
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Note to sales:
The next few slides provide a suggested talk track to get your started. Practice the slides and edit the talk track to make it your own weaving in customer examples and insights based on your experience.
Talk track
Thanks everyone for your time. Before we get into the main purpose of today’s meeting, I’d like to take a few minutes to introduce you to Winshuttle and what we do.
Talk track
Our software enables you to go faster, be more agile, and improve the quality of your most important data so your business can compete and thrive in today’s digital economy. <click>
[Note to sales:] The puzzle pieces are the top-level capabilities that make us unique in the marketplace. There is a slide on each of these in the first section of the slide library.
Here are some points you might want to weave in that positions what Evolve does compared to business process automation (BPA) platforms (like K2, Nintex, Pegasystems, etc.) and master data management (MDM) platforms like SAP MDG:
Traditional business process automation platforms streamline processes but do little or nothing to improve data quality. They’re also not designed to handle complex, strategic SAP data processes.
Master data management platforms are great at improving the quality of a few core data attributes but are not designed to automate complex business processes that span data objects and business functions.
Winshuttle Evolve provides the right combination capabilities and enables enterprise organizations to create and maintain strategic data assets faster—data like materials, customers, suppliers, and equipment—while ensuring that data adheres to business rules and company and regulatory procedures.
Note to sales:
Use this slide to explain that there’s a ton of SAP master data outside of the big four domains. SAP MDG is designed just to govern a few core attributes in the big four domains, but our products can digitize and accelerate processes that span master data objects while improving data quality and compliance.
Here is how the new products fit into our landscape.
Desktop Studio, Studio Manager (Server based) , and Evolve (Server based).
Studio Manager contains all the features of Studio desktop.
Evolve has all the features of Studio Desktop and Studio Manager.
Note to sales:
Use this slide to introduce at a high level the features that make Evolve unique. You do not need to go through each one. For deeper conversations and follow-up meetings there is content around many of these features in the Evolve slide library.
Note to sales:
Use this slide to explain that our platforms can make an impact across their SAP landscape—whether it’s master data or transactional data use cases.
Note to sales:
Use this slide to explain at a high level that our NPI solution, built on Evolve is about digitizing and accelerating the collection of SAP materials and related data (BoMs, recipes/routings, source lists, PIRs, etc.) need to do an SAP operational launch. In the case of manufacturers that means the products can now be made and shipped.
Our PIM solution, built on EnterWorks is about digitizing and accelerating the creation and distribution of the sell-side content needed to launch a product into the market (product descriptions, images, videos, fact sheets, specifications, etc.).
Note to sales:
This slide illustrates the breadth of information we enable them to see about their products. We have provided a few common product types.
The purple text are examples of customer-facing product information.
The black text data elements are examples of the type of data that are used behind the scenes.
The pink text is meant to give examples of other data domains that can be stored in the platform and cross-linked to the appropriate products
The elements in the dotted box indicate the type of data we can aggregate and surface up in the platform, either through a custom control or through an embedded report (if the data is housed within the platform—see later slides)
Left hand bullets +
Dynamic reports
Visual reports
Guiding user on next steps
Highlighting the gaps by color coding
Data quality by channel
Easily exchange data inbound and outbound in any format and on any schedule
Real-time via API or direct database access
On-demand = ability to update content by business user
Scheduled = Ongoing incremental updates on any schedule (nightly, bi-weekly, etc)
Note to sales:
Use these design principles to start to differentiate the EnterWorks platform.
Kerry’s talk track
Our solutions are designed from the ground-up to be extremely flexible with a configure, not code approach. We are open and extensible and have been built for scale, security, and performance. We give you all of the tools and features necessary to manage data and business complexity – without being complex.
Not just product data
Pull data from any source, enrich/augment/collaborate with team members/check data quality, then syndicate/publish data to any target (internal or external)
Note to sales:
This is the replacement of the ‘octopus’ slide. Use it to walk people through the core purpose of our data hub and introduce the concept that we can manage any type of data in the hub and also surface up analytics on transactional, behavioral, and unstructured data in the context of the domain people are working in. An example of this would be surfacing sales history or social sentiment data in the context of a product.
Emphasize multiple domains in a single instance versus other vendors with separate loosely-coupled domain-specific platforms (like Informatica).
Kerry’s talk track
However, the EnterWorks solution is more than just a PIM…we are a true multi-domain MDM data hub that can easily be extended to handle multiple Domains of data including Customer, Vendor, Material, and Location.
Summarize everything expect in an MDM in one platform + data quality/governance (see boxes on right)
Standard MDM capabilities
DQ/DG at every step
Collaborative workflows
Ability to integrate with any platform
_*Not just about feature/functions – we support all expect w/ MDM but do not require IT support post-implementation, so biz friendly and teams can take responsibility for managing MDM solution
Note to sales:
You can use this slide as a summary of our PIM key capabilities at the end of a presentation or at the beginning depending on your audience. This is designed for more of an IT audience than LOB.
Kerry’s talk track
The EnterWorks PIM is designed to be extremely flexible with a configure, not code approach, and an extensible, open integration framework to deliver value today and long into the future.
The EnterWorks solution is built using a cloud-ready microservices architecture and is architected to provide high levels of execution performance and enterprise-grade scalability, availability, and security.
Exxon/general supply chain use case (6 domains on slide, vendor and location already implemented + will add custom domains [reference, employee, legal]) – managing all data domains in one platform
Note to sales:
Use this slide to introduce our ability to created linked relationship between different data domains with the platform and to surface data from other sources within the platform. This ability to enables business users to do things like see products owned by a particular customer or customer by products, so they can make better business decisions. This slide can tee up the cross-domain intelligence demo.
Questions?
Can you also do Vendor and Customer masters too?
I’m on S4 Hana will this work with my system?
I have custom fields in my material master, does this work for those?
We often have fields that the business is missing can you make them require even if SAP doesn’t require them?
We would love to speak to you in more detail about your product data processes and how we can help you make an impact to your business , so please feel free to reach out to us.