Your Consulting PartnerMaster Data Optimization
High-quality material master data is essential for strategic procurement. It forms the foundation for efficient and reliable decision-making, supporting everything from supplier selection and cost control to the prevention of overstocking, line stoppages, and avoidable claims across the supply chain.
DESKA provides the executional strength to turn that insight into measurable improvement. Whether through capability building, full-scale cleansing projects, or long-term maintenance services, we help you achieve the clarity, consistency, and control your operations demand.
Find out here how DESKA turns complex data challenges into scalable, sustainable solutions.
HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAMMaster Data Capability Building
Not every organization wants to outsource its master data improvement initiatives and not every team is ready to handle them alone. Whether you’re establishing a new internal data maintenance function or equipping your existing team with stronger capabilities:
DESKA provides the expertise, structure, and guidance to help you succeed.
STEP 1TRAINING
Targeted at roles such as Material Master Data Analysts, Data Governance Specialists, Technical Buyers, and Procurement Professionals, our structured training sessions build foundational and advanced knowledge to ensure consistent, high-quality data practices across your team. Topics include:
Material Master Data 101
Principles and strategic relevance
Advanced MMD Knowledge
Common pitfalls and challenges
Specific Data Requirements
What’s mandatory for each item category
Internal Standards
How to apply your internal rules correctly
Tools &
SourcesHow to enrich and validate master data effectively
STEP 2COACHING
Beyond formal training, DESKA offers real-world, ongoing support in the form of personalized coaching formats, regularly scheduled or available on demand. This hands-on guidance ensures that your team can confidently apply best practices in day-to-day operations:
- Clarifying questions in daily work
- Supporting ambiguous or complex material requests
- Applying internal rules to new or changing scenarios
- Advising on difficult sourcing constellations
- Providing expert review before internal approval
Together, these two approaches ensure your internal stakeholders – across procurement, technical, and data functions – are not only knowledgeable, but also supported in applying that knowledge to sustain long-term master data quality.
HOW WE TRANSFORM YOUR DATAMaster Data Cleansing Projects
When your internal team doesn’t have the time or resources to execute a full-scale material master data improvement initiative, DESKA steps in as a reliable, execution-focused partner.
Whether you’re preparing for a supplier tender, consolidating data across multiple plants, or simply ready to raise the quality of your material master data, we take on the operational work – so you can focus on results.
Each project is tailored to your business needs and data maturity – whether your goal is improved stock management, better sourcing decisions, or readiness for digital tools and e-procurement platforms.
Our experienced MMD specialists take fragmented, inconsistent, or outdated material data and transform it into a clean, harmonized, and strategically valuable foundation for purchasing and operations.
Data Cleansing & Validation
Correction of contradictory or missing information, enforcement of naming conventions, and standardization for consistency.
Item Classification & Category Assignment
Categorization of materials according to technical and sourcing criteria to enable structured procurement and better reporting.
Savings Opportunity Identification
Detection of sourcing inefficiencies, duplicate purchases, or unnecessary material variety to support cost reduction.
Cross-Site Matching & Code Harmonization
Identification of duplicates and functionally equivalent materials across multiple sites, followed by consolidation into globally unique codes.
Vendor Structure Analysis
Analysis of vendor allocation across similar materials to identify rationalization and consolidation potential.
Tender Material Review
Pre-tender review and enrichment of item data to ensure suppliers receive clear, complete, and comparable information – improving quote quality and competition.
HOW WE PRESERVE YOUR DATA QUALITYMaster Data Maintenance Services
Even the best material master data deteriorates without active upkeep. New items are constantly created, changed, and requested – often by different teams, with varying levels of understanding. Without a structured process to validate and enrich this incoming data, errors, duplicates, and inconsistencies inevitably return.
DESKA supports you in maintaining high-quality standards as your data grows. Whether integrated into your material creation workflow or as a regular quality review, we help ensure that each new item strengthens – not weakens – your database.
MATERIAL CREATION VALIDATION
DESKA acts as a final checkpoint before material creation in your system. Based on your internal rules and templates, we validate new item requests for completeness, classification, and potential duplication – ensuring that only high-quality, compliant entries make it into your master data.
QUALITY MONITORING
At defined intervals, DESKA reviews newly created or modified materials to safeguard the quality of your master data. Each entry is validated for completeness, checked for correct classification, and screened for duplicates using a combination of AI-supported logic and expert review. This ensures that even ongoing changes meet the same high standards as a full-scale data cleansing project, keeping your dataset clean, consistent, and reliable over time.
COMPLIANCE AUDITS & REPORTING
Through scheduled audits, we measure how well your material creation processes adhere to defined data standards. Our reports highlight recurring issues, track progress, and provide clear recommendations to improve process discipline and support continuous data governance.
DESKA supports you in all matters related to material master data optimization – from training internal teams, to executing full-scale cleansing projects, to maintaining long-term data quality through structured services.
Whether you’re building internal capabilities or outsourcing operational tasks, your goals are our mission and we’ll help you achieve the reliable master data foundation your procurement strategy depends on.
Ready to Take Your Master Data to the Next Level?
Contact our team today to discuss how DESKA can support your internal efforts – or become your trusted partner in maintaining clean, consistent, and strategically valuable material data.
Let’s talk about how we can support your goals.
