CJ Das presented on mastering data assets at Cummins. Cummins has 70,000 suppliers, 5,200 dealers in 139 countries, and 80 manufacturing plants with $19B in annual sales. Currently there are 34 ERP systems and 15,000 interfaces. The presentation recommends starting with a critical data element, understanding its quality and lineage, assigning a steward, developing business rules, and iteratively improving data quality. It also recommends establishing data governance councils with executive sponsors, global and functional data owners, and business data stewards to ensure adherence. The goals are to improve supplier, customer, and product data management through repeatable processes and tools for a common trusted view.

1. CJ Das
Director, App Dev Solutions & BI
Mastering Data Assets
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2. 1919
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3. 70,000
500 Distributors
5200 Dealers
139 Countries
80 Manufacturing Plants
$19B Sales
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Current: 34 ERP Systems,
15 K Interfaces

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70K+ Suppliers
1M+ Products
3M+ Customers
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7. Getting Started
 Pick a Critical Data Element that is important to the business
 Understand it’s lineage and current quality
 Assign a responsible data steward for the CDE
 Develop business rules for CDE
 Develop plan for
– Remediation of current data
– Ongoing verification
 Build metrics to check ongoing process and rules effectiveness
 Make iterative course corrections
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8. Data Governance Councils and Roles
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Executive
Council
Strategic
Council
Tactical
Council
Across
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Sponsorship
Accountability
Definition
Adherence
New Roles
Data
Governance
Councils
Exec
Sponsors
Global Data Owners
Functional Data Owners
Business Data Stewards
Supply Chain Supply Chain
70K+ Suppliers
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duplicate
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Envision Cummins – Customer Data Management
Increasing confidence in customer data
Supplier End Results
Repeatable processes, tools and business ownership
established for the first time to ensure we always have a common
trusted view of our suppliers
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Scalable, repeatable approach to continuously improve our supplier data
 Only 20% of the records were correct
 73% corrected, remaining require more
information
 De-duplication of 1,158 different supplier
numbers, resulted in only 72 unique supplier
numbers surviving
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10. Business Benefits and Outcomes
1. Supplier
– Managing supply chain disruptions
– Supporting sourcing strategies
2. Customer
– Managing global customer credit and risk
– Enabling global ease of doing business with Cummins
3. Product
– Inventory management
– Product number creation and maintenance cost
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11. Summary of Key Points
 Start small
 Define what Data Governance means to your
organization
 Understand what your executives’ top
problems/challenges
– Help solve their problems
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