cMat™ is a dynamic, web-enabled Collaborative Application™ that empowers global business users to collaboratively author and maintain material master data. cMat allows global businesses to gather and stage finished goods, components, phantoms, raw materials, BOMs, routings and all other materials data. The application continually validates the data’s accuracy and cross-checks for completeness before it is introduced into the SAP® production environment.
Loads major SAP® material data objects as part of integrated, controlled business process:
- Basic material data
- Sales views
- Descriptions and texts in multiple languages as required
- Material Classifications and Product Hierarchies
- Material to plant extensions, including planning data
- Warehousing data
- Finance, accounting data
- Material quality data
- Environmental, regulatory data
- Material to customer associations
- Procurement Data (Purchase Information, Contract Lines, Source List)
- Manufacturing Data (BOM, Routing, Recipe, Production Version)
- Quality Data
- Forecasting
- Foreign Trade (import/export)
- Other data as required
Implements and controls separate data management responsibilities as needed by business process design:
- Business line management to authorize data request
- SAP data collection experts in business roles (unlimited number of separate roles possible)
- Business approval roles (multiple if required)
- Data governance review and approval roles (if required)
- Data entry personnel
Additional features:
- Web enabled front-end to allow easy access through company intranet for all authorized users.
- Data quality and data completeness controls based on business decision type.
- Search capability to help prevent the creation of duplicate records. Other duplicate detection capability based on business rules.
- Able to enforce formatting and other standards in description and text fields.
- Built in workflow to coordinate data collection, data approval and data entry across multiple personnel and organizations. Workflow available through simple process configuration – no separate workflow design or implementation required.
- Supports all SAP languages.
- Streamlined data entry screens with defaults, controlled drop down lists and validation rules based on decision type and company business rules.
- Flexible security for personnel assigned to cMat roles - more granular and more flexible than typical in SAP security.
- Data fully validated before it is posted – no recycle between data entry function and data collection function caused by SAP data entry problems.
- Process metrics and audit trail available from data request creation step to final posting.
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