Data profiling
An assessment of duplicates, gaps and conflicting values in the systems that hold each data domain.
Industry context
MDM, PIM and data quality in manufacturing
We give each party, product, supplier or asset one trusted record, with matching rules and stewards agreed by the business.
Master data work is about matching rules, data ownership and stewardship rather than software alone. We profile your data, agree the rules with the business and set up the workflows people use to keep records correct.
Manufacturers depend on plant uptime and safety interlocks, with suppliers spread across several countries. Plant engineers, quality teams and IT/OT owners need changes planned around production schedules and maintenance shutdowns. Arabic and English spellings of the same name, national ID and commercial registration numbers, and UAE and Saudi address formats each need their own matching rules.
After stabilisation we hand over to your teams or keep running the service with you.
Alongside sector regulation, we often map delivery evidence to cross-industry baselines such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation issued by TDRA, the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which many risk reviewers already use.
What the work covers
We design, deliver and stay until operation is stable, with evidence your procurement and risk teams can rely on.
Matching and survivorship
Rules for matching records and choosing the trusted value, agreed with the data owners.
Stewardship workflows
Queues and approvals for data stewards, with quality measures reported to data owners.
Industrial and security standards
Where plant systems are involved we design to OT security practice such as IEC 62443 and to national controls such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation or NCA OTCC in Saudi Arabia, and keep quality records in the form your ISO 9001 or sector auditors review.
Bilingual matching
Match rules that handle Arabic and English names, transliteration variants and local identifiers.
Distribution to consuming systems
Trusted records published to ERP, CRM and analytics through agreed interfaces.
Signs you are ready to start
Master data work is ready to start when a business owner will decide the rules and the systems that hold each domain are known.
- Production has agreed the shutdown or low-volume windows available for changes.
- A business owner for each data domain in scope has agreed to decide matching and quality rules.
- The systems that create and change records in each domain have been listed.
Plan MDM, PIM and data quality in manufacturing
Tell us where you are today and which dates matter. We will propose a first phase with scope, owners and an itemised quotation.