by Simon Glass, September 15th, 2010
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Every morning supply chain directors at consumer packaged goods companies logon to their dashboards to see what has happened over night. On a good day most indicators are green; manufacturing plants are producing and delivering goods to the targets set, and those products are making their way through the supply chain to distribution centres and retail shelves around the world.
But why are customers still complaining? Why are there so many out-of-stocks and is there more efficiency to be squeezed from the system? Is the data right? It’s difficult to answer these pressing questions because few supply chain dashboards, and certainly none that I’ve come across, include a realistic KPI for Data Quality, despite the growing importance of data in managing the modern supply chain.
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by Garry Moroney, September 2nd, 2010
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The number of people involved in data quality these days goes way beyond those of us who actually have data quality in our job titles. I could go as far as to say that anyone who touches corporate data should take some responsibility for data quality – even if it’s only that we should at the very least tell someone who can do something about it when we see data that is incorrect, invalid or otherwise compromised.
So don’t be ashamed, sing out loud, sing out proud – “my job is data quality.”
by Simon Glass, August 24th, 2010
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There’s been a common thread running through retailers’ presentations at a number of supply chain industry events I’ve attended this year in the US and Europe; retailers are hungry for much more product data, and the quality of the data really matters.
The drivers for the expanding requirements are well known: demand for data, such as nutritional information and product specifications driven by the consumer; environmental, packaging and legal information required by government and regulatory bodies; and of course data designed to improve supply chain effectiveness. But I’m still struck by the unrelenting nature of retailer demands and I have to ask the question, will suppliers be able to cope?
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by Simon Glass, August 18th, 2010
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Hi, my name is Simon Glass; I joined Clavis Technology a couple of months ago from The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) where I worked in the consumer packaged goods giant’s Global Data Management organization. I also spent a number of years working at The Gillette Company in the US and Canada, and before that as a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Throughout my career I’ve focused on supply chain effectiveness and the part high quality product data plays in streamlining consumer products distribution and supply. And that’s what I’m going to focus on here at Clavis Technology. Read the rest of this entry »
by Paul Woodlock, August 9th, 2010
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Change is afoot! Or at least I am seeing evidence of maturation in how organizations and commentators view Master Data Management or more specifically Product Master Data, in some articles and blogs I’ve read, and some of the meeting I’ve participated in recently. In my view people in data management, whether they come from an IT or Business perspective, are really starting to grasp the depth and complexity of the challenge that large organizations face when trying to implement Master Data Management or introduce corporate data governance. In particular there seems to be a new focus on the “data supply chain”.
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by Garry Moroney, August 3rd, 2010
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You bet it does: bad product data can lead to lost sales due to out of stocks, delays in new product introductions, and lost opportunity due to money and effort being spent on workarounds. That’s got to impact growth.
If the data is inaccurate re-supply can go wrong or shelf placement can be thrown out of whack by faulty dimension data leading to physical products not fitting with the store planograms produced by merchandisers. Although some stock-outs will see consumers purchasing alternative brands, a study by industry analyst firm AMR Research (now part of Gartner) point to nearly half of out-of-stock instances resulting in a lost sale for the retailer. And while this might not always result in a lost sale for the supplier, as the customer can pop across the road to another store, AMR says that in 37 per cent of cases they don’t, so everyone loses.
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by Tom Golden, July 8th, 2010
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Clavis Technology has announced its latest on-demand service for helping CPG companies to maintain data quality standards across the supply chain. Clavis Data Validation Services™ on-Demand is an innovative, efficient, low cost and easily adopted solution for monitoring how well supply chain data conforms to data interchange standards and requirements developed by the GS1 organization and trading partners.
Clavis Data Validation Services is a cloud-based solution based on Clavis Data Steward™, which includes more than 1,500 validation rules covering global GS1 standards and classifications as well as retailer-, sector-, and region-specific requirements, and data quality rules based on business subject matter expertise.
For more information you can see the press release here.
by Tom Golden, July 5th, 2010
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The European Commission is set to push for a more open approach to the integration of retail markets across the European Union following the adoption of a report that identifies key issues potentially hampering more efficient and fairer retail services. The Commission has called for further submissions on a new approach to the internal retail market that represents 4.2 per cent of EU GDP, employs 17.5 million individuals and involves 20 per cent of Europe’s more than 23 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
by Tom Golden, June 10th, 2010
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Clavis has announced the appointment of Simon Glass as vice president of business development. Glass brings a wealth of experience in CPG supply chain management to Clavis having worked with industry giants such as The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) (NYSE: PG) and The Gillette Company in the US and Canada.
Clavis Data Services™ and Clavis Data Steward™ provide CPG organizations with data validation and monitoring services based on up-to-date industry standards such as GS1 as well as retailer specific requirements and data quality rules built on business subject matter expertise. For more information check-out the press release.
by Tom Golden, May 17th, 2010
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The latest version of Clavis Technology’s data validation and monitoring solution Clavis Data Steward was released today. The significant upgrade to the SaaS data quality solution for data creation and capture processes boasts new standard data validation services, role-based dashboards for different data quality users, extended functionality for glossaries and data quality rules management, and wider integration with third party applications, data integration suites and data quality tools.
For more information check out the Data Steward 2.0 press release.
