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The Far-Reaching Impact of Disconnected Data: From Operations to the Executive Suite

The Impact of Disconnected Data Across Your Organization

Operations Impact:

  • The warehouse manager’s spreadsheet tracking inventory levels and supplier shipments is disconnected from your ERP.
  • Dealer Portal Email orders need to be manually entered into the system.

Finance Impact:

  • Budgeting data is maintained in isolated spreadsheets, unlinked to quotes or sales figures in your ERP.
  • Open purchase orders and invoices need manual matching and approval, creating inefficiencies.

Technology Impact:

  • A large number of reports must be generated outside the ERP for teams to stay "up to date."
  • Valuable time is spent exporting ERP data for analysis in external data cubes.

Executive Impact:

  • Compiling an accurate picture of inventory and financial health is a struggle when data comes from multiple sources.
  • Lack of visibility to inventory shortages results in losing customers due to stockouts or delays.

Disconnected data refers to information stored separately from your main business system, such as your ERP. While this data holds value, the lack of integration creates challenges across your entire organization—often more than expected.

A 2023 study by Snaplogic and Vanson Bourne highlighted the consequences:

  • 25% of respondents believe disconnected data slows product and service development, putting them behind competitors.
  • 61% report project delays due to slow data integration.
  • 90% of business users are stuck with repetitive, tedious tasks.
  • Employees spend an average of 32 minutes a day moving data between systems, equivalent to 19 workdays per year.

At Crossroads RMC, we specialize in integrating disconnected data. Our consultants, with decades of experience, help you connect your systems to provide real-time updates to and from your ERP. This eliminates redundant data entry, enhances efficiency, and delivers a comprehensive view of your data, empowering better decision-making.

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Use this session to define simulated purchase prices for purchased items per site.

Field Information:

  • Cost Calculation Code - price calculation code
  • Item

The raw materials, subassemblies, finished products, and tools that can be purchased, stored, manufactured, and sold.

An item can also represent a set of items handled as one kit, or which exist in multiple product variants.

You can also define nonphysical items, which are not retained in inventory but can be used to post costs or to invoice services to customers. The examples of nonphysical items:

  • Cost items (for example, electricity)
  • Service items
  • Subcontracting services
  • List items (menus/options)
     
  • ​Site - The site for which the purchase price is simulated.
  • Purchase Currency - The currency of the simulated purchase price.
  • Simulated Price - Purchase price

The simulated purchase price and currency are recorded twice.

  • Simulated Price Multi Currency - The purchase price in multiple currencies.

The simulated purchase price and currency are recorded twice. The amount in this field is related to the price of the supplier.

  • Unit - Purchase price unit
  • Cost Component - The cost component that must be of the type Material Costs.

Note: The cost component specified in this field does not become part of the standard cost detail structure if it is part of the cost component scheme of the selected item. If calculations are performed with a calculation code not used for actualization (simulations only), the simulated purchase price is mapped to the cost component defined in the records for this session.

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