Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
Data Management
MDM for Industrial Coating Company
- 150+ years in the coatings industry serving the globe across 50+ brands
- $4.8B+ in revenue
Business Need
- Replace Talend with Informatica MDM across 3 domains
- Customer record enhancements – incomplete, duplicates, mismatch with ERP
- Material record enhancements – reduce onboarding time and sync with ERP
- Supplier record enhancements – Correct and de-duplicate vendor IDs, contract terms, and material IDs
Challenge
- Talend take out with customized solution
- User adoption and acceptance
- Work arounds and short cuts
- Time sensitive – avoid additional subscription costs
- Departmental not Enterprise deployment
- Lack of integration with ERP (SAP) and SFDC
- Manual processes in departments outside of MDM users
- Lack of documentation and best practices
- Faster integration of acquired companies
Solution & Results
- Rapid asset deployment – 12+ Paradigm team members on the ground within 72 hours of signing
- Integration with 4 SAP enterprise systems
- Led training of global team
- Expanded team with projects out of scope including SAP integration and other internal systems while maintaining timeline and risk profiles
- Created business and technical user “Runbook” and “Playbook” as best practice guides, increasing productivity by 8%
- Worked with senior executives on data governance, compliance with regulations and other global initiatives, reducing risk by 18%