Master Data Management

Master Data Management

Every system has an answer. They don’t agree.

When PLM, ERP, MES, RMS, and CPQ each hold their own version of the same part, customer, or specification, someone reconciles it by hand, and every decision waits on that. IPX establishes one authoritative view across all of them.

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What fragmentation actually costs

Duplicate records multiply across systems. Teams reconcile spreadsheets instead of doing their work. Departments arrive at meetings with different numbers and spend the meeting deciding whose data to believe. The cost isn’t storage, it’s the decisions delayed and the errors that survive to production.

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What we establish

• A single source of truth. One authoritative source for each data entity, so every system references the same record rather than its own copy.
• Disciplined metadata. Context that makes data interpretable — not just accurate, but meaningful to the person acting on it.
• Data governance. Accuracy, availability, and security maintained by design, covering records and datasets across their full lifecycle.
• Sustained quality. Consistent, repeatable workflows so the data stays clean after we leave, instead of drifting back.

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Process first, always

Good data comes from solid processes. Clean the records without fixing what produced them and the duplicates return within a quarter; faster than before, because the new system is more efficient at generating them. We fix the process that creates the data, then the data itself.

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Why IPX

We own the CM2-500 standard, and data management, records management, and dataset control are three of its core business process categories. This is not adjacent work for us, it’s written into the standard we maintain. Decades of cross-industry experience mean we’ve seen how your data got this way before.

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