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The Value of Data Cleansing
Meeting Your Cost Reduction Targets
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About Us
Established
Avantis
Relationship
1989
Founded by
Jim Calvert
1991
1998
2002
2006
2010
2012
Library
Lane
Location
Company
Sold
Regained
Ownership
New Brock
Street
Location
Relocation
– Current
Office
Ownership
Change
Provider of Materials Master Data Management Solutions.
Certified service provider to Avantis clients for over 10 years.
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Solutions
I.M.A. provides solutions to address your
Materials Master Data challenges.
Pre-Cleansing
Data
Cleansing
Catalogue
Management
uM
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Enterprise
Visibility
uV
Inventory
Optimization
Pre-Cleansing
Data Assessment Report summarizing:
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Data Quality

Commodity Segmentation and Distribution
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Duplication and Rejection
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Potential cost savings

Before and After samples
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Duplicate samples by plant and across the corporation
Also includes a formal presentation and proposal.
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Pre-Cleansing
Features
Benefits
 Overall Data Scoring based on data
quality
 Insight into the true condition of
the database
 Commodity segmentation
 Ability to choose appropriate
solutions that best suit database
requirements
 Duplication
 Rejections and insufficient data
 Noun/Mod, Part Number and
Manufacturer extraction
 Consolidation potential
 Direct matches with I.M.A. Library
 Lookups and Enhancements
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 Identification of cost savings
 Realization of inefficiencies
 Supporting proof of the need for
data cleansing
Pre-Cleansing
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Data Cleansing
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Over time, data becomes inconsistent and inaccurate, causing large
expenditures on duplicate and/or excess inventory, false stock-outs and
equipment downtime.
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Data Cleansing consistently delivers greater than 10:1 ROI
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Internal tools and resources combined with our extensive industry
knowledge, allow I.M.A. to provide the highest quality of Data, ensuring
maximum cost savings and improved efficiency
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Data Cleansing
Features
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Map to ERP systems, including: SAP,
Oracle, Infor, Avantis, JDE and Ivara
Configurable to suit specific client
requirements
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Noun/modifier pairing
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Order attributes as required
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Standardize format and nomenclature
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Correct spelling mistakes
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Change all text to upper case
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Enhance item descriptions
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Optional UNSPSC coding
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Identify duplicate items within plant and
across corporation
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Identify alternate manufacturer and
manufacturer part number when available
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Combination of technology and data
cleansing specialists, delivering
unsurpassed quality and accuracy
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Creation of customized commodity
category / sub-category codes
Data Cleansing
Benefits
 Cost savings
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Inventory reduction

Improved maintenance efficiency
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Elimination of false stock-outs
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Down-time reduction
 Improved search capability
 Foundation to gain future efficiencies
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Catalogue Management, Enterprise Visibility and
Inventory Optimization
Samples
After
Before
Item #
30757
Mfg Name
FAFNIR
Model
203PP
OEM MfgP/N
203PP
Short Description
BEARING_BALL,17 MM
ID,40 MM OD
Long Description
BEARING,BALL,17 MM ID,40
MM OD,12 MM WD,CONRAD,
SINGLE ROW,2 SEALS
Classification
BEARING_BALL
30757
OEM Mfg
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Item #
OEM Mfg P/N
203PP
Noun
BEARING
Description
BEARING
Modifier
BALL
ID
17 MM ID
OD
40 MM OD
WIDTH
12 MM WD
KIND
CONRAD, SINGLE ROW
TYPE
2 SEALS
UNSPSC Code
31170000
I.M.A. Control#
1001056
Duplicate Samples
Before
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After
Catalogue Management
uM
Catalogue Management as a service maintains consistency and
accuracy of your data. New item creation, modification and
suspension are managed by a dedicated catalogue specialist
uM
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uManage is a self-service web-based portal through which the
client manages their own catalogue.
Catalogue Management
uM
Features
•
Item creation, modification and
suspension
•
Format all changes while maintaining
corporate structure
•
Research and enhance item
descriptions
•
Services turnaround time 48 hours
•
uManage turnaround time less than 24
•
Maintain audit trail of transactional
history
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Benefits
•
Cost savings
•
Inventory reduction
•
Long-term data integrity
•
Prevention of future duplication
•
Simplified plant search
capabilities
•
Elimination of false stock-outs
•
Down-time reduction
•
Maintained synchronization of
part number schema (site
specific and corporate)
Enterprise Visibility
uView
uV
Manufacturing and asset intensive organizations have multiple sites,
across large geographic regions, operating on various platforms,
with thousands of dollars in maintenance stores inventory
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Enterprise Visibility
uView
SaaS interface, which provides multi-site manufacturing organizations with
enterprise-wide visibility, allowing for quick and easy part look-ups, crosscorporation part sharing and further cost reduction.
Enterprise-wide visibility unlike any other software on the market.
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uV
Enterprise Visibility
uV
Features
 View Min/Max levels across the
enterprise
 Easy to use especially for front-line
Stores/Material Management staff
 Search by plant, item number,
manufacturer, manufacturer part
number, noun, modifier, or
description
 uView is fast even on large datasets
in the tens of millions of records
 Multilingual Interface - English and
French currently supported
 Configuration of search criteria
allows for broad searches or
extremely narrow, focused,
searches.
 uView can be configured to include  Secure login access over SSL
an unlimited number of search fields
encryption
and unlimited data sizes
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Enterprise Visibility
uV
Benefits
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Enterprise-wide visibility
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Quick and easy part searches
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Part sharing between plants
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Significant cost reduction
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Significant down time reduction
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Risk reduction
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Enterprise Visibility
uV
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Inventory Optimization
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Missing resource to ensure that clients identify and capture cash or credit
savings on all excess inventory
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Detailed analysis and a series of strategic calculations, which reveal cost
savings opportunities and areas of inefficiency
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Expert data analysts will assist clients in tailoring specific inventory
strategies to match cost savings objectives
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Inventory Optimization
Features
 Segment inventory into commodity
groups
 Consolidate and reduce part numbers
 Identify excess-active items
 Facilitate consolidation of the supplier
base
 Facilitate return of excess-active
 Optimize stocking levels for “A” type
inventory for credit towards future
items
purchases
 Expose supplier spend
 Reveal spot buys
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 Facilitate reining in Maverick
purchases
Inventory Optimization
Benefits

Cost savings
 Inventory reduction
 Improved maintenance efficiency
 Establish preferred supplier programs
 Competitive supplier pricing
 Improved forecasting abilities
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Inventory Optimization ROI Calculator sample data
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TOTAL INVENTORY VALUE
ANNUAL SPEND ON MRO/OEM SPARE PARTS
$
$
15,000,000
10,000,000
YOUR POTENTIAL ROI BASED ON EXCESS ACTIVE:
YOUR POTENTIAL ROI BASED ON UNIT COST SAVINGS:
YOUR POTENTIAL ROI BASED ON SPOT BUYS:
$
$
$
900,000
600,000
300,000
YOUR POTENTIAL ROI TOTAL:
$
1,800,000
Client Testimonials
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PepsiCo
“PepsiCo challenged I.M.A. to meet very aggressive
cost reduction targets and timelines. Through the use
of its Data Cleansing & Catalogue Management
services, we will meet or exceed those targets.”
- Phil Faxlanger
Director, Maintenance Capability
PepsiCo North America Beverages
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Maple Leaf
“Before we started working with I.M.A., we had over
15 different part numbers and descriptions for the
same part across our network of plants. Working with
I.M.A., we now have one unique part number and
standard description for each unique spare part in
our inventories across our network.”
- Chris Markwood
Director, Maintenance & Sanitation
Maple Leaf
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Tembec
“I.M.A. played an important role assisting Tembec in
standardizing and improving business processes,
systems and naming nomenclature related to
maintenance stores inventory and capital spare part
stocking activities. I.M.A. worked with Tembec to
design and implement a process whereby rapid easy
access to a single view of stores inventory is available.”
- Tim Brown
Director, Information Technology & Systems
Tembec Pulp & Paper & Chemical Group
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Bowater
“Completed Detailed Item Analysis. Have $ 25 million
stores inventory. 5% or $ 1,250,000 identified as
surplus overstock. Establishing regional central
warehouse for capital spares.”
- Doug Miller
Material Supply Manager
Bowater, Calhoun Alabama
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Contact Us
Charlene Freeman
President & CEO
charlene.freeman@imaltd.com
Troy D. Miller
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
troy.miller@imaltd.com
Jocelyn Facciotti
Director of Marketing
jocelyn.facciotti@imaltd.com
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Tillsonburg, ON Canada N4G 4H3
Tel: 519.688.3805
Fax: 519.688.3807
Email: info@imaltd.com
www.imaltd.com
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Invensys or its subsidiaries. All third party trademarks and service marks are the proprietary marks of their respective owners.
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