Material Master Cleansing
Improve the quality of existing material descriptions — fixing inconsistencies, populating missing attributes and standardising terminology across your material master.
What cleansing addresses in a material master.
Inconsistent abbreviations
Same term written differently across records — GV, G.V., GATE VLV, GATE VALVE.
Missing technical attributes
Descriptions that name a material but omit size, rating, material or standard — impossible to use for procurement without further clarification.
Non-standard units
Mixed units — mm and inch, kW and HP, NB and DN — within the same material class.
Duplicated information
Manufacturer names, stock codes or order units repeated inside the material description.
Outdated descriptions
Descriptions that reference superseded standards, old internal codes or obsolete supplier references.
Inconsistent noun usage
The same item referred to by different nouns across different plants or purchasing teams.
Cleanse before migration, not after.
Migrating poor-quality material data into a new ERP system does not improve it — it carries the same problems forward. Material master cleansing before an ERP migration reduces rework, improves adoption and produces more reliable procurement, inventory and maintenance data from day one.
VCode can support the cleansing, enrichment and validation of material data as part of an ERP readiness programme.
What the assessment covers
- ✓Description completeness and structure
- ✓Missing technical attributes by material class
- ✓Abbreviation and unit inconsistencies
- ✓Duplicate or near-duplicate materials
- ✓UNSPSC classification gaps
- ✓Recommendations for priority cleansing
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