Manufacturing, CPG and Retail
Architecture and Engineering
Data Governance Transformation for Global Chemical Industry Leader
- One of the world’s largest producers of polymers
- Inventor and leader in chemistry
Business Need
- Trusted, accurate data for business-critical decision-making
- Improve operational efficiency by eliminating data-driven bottlenecks across production and procurement
- Protect critical institutional knowledge during restructuring to avoid operational disruption
- Scalable data foundation enabling future modernization, analytics, and AI
- Reduce technology spend on a fragmented, overlapping tool landscape
Challenge
- Tens of millions in savings at risk without cohesive governance and MDM
- Procurement errors and production delays from inaccurate SAP master data
- Varying governance practices depend on tribal knowledge
- Risk of losing decades of expertise as long-tenured employees exited
- 6+ costly, fragmented tools with limited enterprise value
- Unreliable lineage and inconsistent data quality eroding trust in reporting
Solution & Results
- Improved operational accuracy through clean, governed SAP customer, supplier, and materials data powering new operating models
- $500K+ annual savings in technology spend via tool rationalization (Alation > CDGC)
- $150K annual savings by replacing ZenOptics with Informatica’s Data Marketplace
- Faster decisioning with automated lineage, standardized workflows, and trusted data
- Deployed in only 12 weeks, reducing time-to-value for governance and MDM
- Preserved institutional expertise by formalizing processes and embedding knowledge into governance
- Built internal ownership through hands-on enablement