Master data harmonization for international enterprise resource planning

Applications distributed across several countries and based on various enterprise resource planning systems are to be migrated to a shared SAP Retail system in the medium term. The item and supplier master data is often maintained differently in the different countries. In order to prepare for the SAP rollout in every country, this data is to be standardized, as far as possible, via a centralized data hub. As the master data is transferred from the central SAP Retail system to the countries' enterprise resource planning systems and the master data is later transferred back from the countries to the central database, master data maintenance in the individual countries should be made easier and standardized before the migration to SAP Retail. Purchase prices should be maintained centrally and automatically transferred to the different countries.