Making the Most of Manufacturing Business Data

Stibo Systems Platform consolidates datasets from various sources into a single source of truth, giving manufacturing companies a comprehensive perspective of their product information and production processes. This comprehensive visibility transforms operational efficiency by ensuring data consistency across the organization.

By integrating and standardizing quality data from different systems and sources — including legacy systems, cloud platforms and enterprise software applications — manufacturing companies can be sure that all departments are working with consistent and up-to-date information. Clear data visibility reduces errors and redundancies, streamlining processes and fostering better teamwork across the entire organization.

Consolidated data provides reliable insights for forecasting, advanced analytics and reporting, all of which support better decision making.

Having a unified data approach not only improves product lifecycle management but also helps in meeting compliance and regulatory standards more effectively, thereby boosting overall productivity and competitiveness in the market.

Automated workflows are crucial for optimizing data management solutions. They help ensure that the quality, accuracy and reliability of your data strategy is incorporated into your business processes. By integrating data governance policies into workflows, data validation checks can be performed in real time and data updates can be seamlessly shared across all systems. This accelerates data processing times and ensures that all stakeholders have access to accurate and up-to-date information.

With automated workflows, risks created by human error are reduced at the point of entry, thereby preventing errors from being replicated and compromising data accuracy and reporting downstream.

Stibo Systems Platform employs advanced encryption techniques to secure data both at rest and in transit, ensuring that confidential data such as intellectual property, supplier information and customer details are protected from unauthorized access and breaches.

By enforcing strict access controls and authentication protocols, only authorized personnel can access and modify critical master data, thus reducing the risk of internal and external threats. This not only mitigates security risks but also enhances the integrity and security of the entire master data ecosystem.

With Stibo Systems Platform, manufacturing companies can define multi-level product hierarchies so that all related product information is systematically structured, from broad categories down to individual SKUs.

This hierarchical organization simplifies data management, making it easier to navigate complex manufacturing processes and product portfolios. This gives all stakeholders a clear understanding of product relationships and attributes.

The platform’s product hierarchy tools make reporting and analytics easier with better data segmentation and organization. manufacturing companies can create detailed reports and insights at any level of the product hierarchy, helping with planning and decision making.

Updating and managing product hierarchies keeps your product details accurate and up to date, helping to improve inventory management.

Stibo Systems Platform addresses the manufacturing industry’s need for compliance and regulatory oversight by centralizing and standardizing compliance-related data. This approach allows manufacturing companies to efficiently track data quality metrics, manage documentation and improve product quality, which are essential for increasing customer satisfaction.

By centralizing and standardizing compliance-related data, manufacturing companies can maintain accurate records, track regulatory changes and ensure all necessary documentation is up to date and readily accessible for audits and inspections.

Stibo Systems Platform allows manufacturing companies to adhere to various industry standards and exchange formats through effective data management and robust data integration capabilities. Its support includes:

• ETIM, ETIM XC and ETIM eXchange, ensuring seamless data interchange using XML and JSON formats
• BMECat standard
• eClass and eClass Advance product classification standards
• GDSN and GPC for real-time product information synchronization and consistent global product categorization
• UNSPEC standards

The scalable and flexible platform further supports efficient data management and compliance with standardized template management and creation, workflow automation and the integration of machine-learning and AI technologies. This is particularly valuable for initiatives focused on streamlining operations and improving compliance with industry standards.