Use cases

Materials management

Efficient management and maintenance of material data

Materials management plays a central role in every company that works with SAP. The Materials Management cockpit in APICON Data Master offers a powerful solution to ensure that processes relating to the material master run smoothly and error-free. It combines clear dashboards with intelligent functions for data quality, duplicate checking and material maintenance to make material master management more efficient.


Functions at a glance

Quality analysis with dashboard

The integrated dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of the quality of the material data. It identifies discrepancies and shows optimization potential so that targeted measures can be taken. Thanks to the flexible rule editor, checks can be extended independently and adapted to specific requirements.

Advantages

  • Clear overview of material data quality
  • Identification of error sources
  • Expandable check rules for individual requirements


Automated tasks for quality improvement

The cockpit automatically creates tasks for data optimization based on analysis results. This eliminates the need to manually search for improvement opportunities - the system proactively supports the cleansing and maintenance of material master data.

Advantages

  • Automatic generation of improvement tasks
  • Efficient optimization without manual effort
  • Support through rule-based data analysis

Inventory overview in real time

With the detailed stock overview, users always have an overview of relevant material stocks. Real-time information helps to make informed decisions and identify bottlenecks or surpluses at an early stage.

Advantages

  • Transparent inventory management
  • Avoidance of shortages and excess stock
  • Faster decision-making

Guided changeover of material types

The changeover of material types is efficient and error-free. Guided processes and optional sets of rules allow stock transfers and adjustments to valuation classes to be carried out smoothly.

Advantages

  • Reliable conversion of material types
  • Automated stock transfers
  • Rule-based adjustment of valuation classes

Flexible change functions with Excel integration

Users can make changes to material master data easily and in large quantities. Excel integration allows data to be conveniently exported, edited and then imported back into the system. The imported data can be checked before posting and posted individually or as mass changes. All of the SAP system's checks are reliably applied.

Advantages

  • Efficient processing of large amounts of data
  • Smooth integration with Excel
  • Rule-based updating of additional fields

Duplicate check for clean material master data

The system-supported duplicate check identifies and cleans up duplicate or incorrect material data records. Data quality remains high and unnecessary redundancies are avoided. Deletion flags or whitelist entries can also be set.

Advantages

  • Faster identification of duplicate data records
  • Higher data quality through targeted cleansing
  • Consistent and error-free material masters

Why the Materials Management Cockpit?

The Materials Management Cockpit in APICON Data Master offers a powerful, seamless solution for companies that want to manage their material master data efficiently. With intuitive operation, flexible customization options and automated functions, it saves valuable time, reduces errors and ensures high data quality.

Your benefits at a glance
  • Optimization of material master data through intelligent analysis and checking mechanisms
  • Automated quality improvement through rules and task control
  • Real-time inventory overview for better decisions
  • Efficient data maintenance through Excel integration and guided processes
  • Consistent master data through precise duplicate checking

Take your materials management to the next level with Cockpit Materials Management - efficient, integrated and error-free.