SAP and Data Services

Utopia’s Strategic Consulting practice provides a holistic approach to transformative technology, focusing on the improvement of the people and processes affected. Our practice was founded on the principle that technology empowers people to succeed.

Strategic consultants possess years of experience with data management, change management, and process redesign within a wide variety of industries. Utilizing our backgrounds we can identify areas for improvement using tried and true best practices.

Utopia’s strategic consultants have unsurpassed expertise in the implementation of a Data Governance Framework, training, knowledge transfer, and other functional consulting that supports your business transformation when applied to stakeholders and critical processes.

Strategic Change Enablement directly aligns concepts of change management to the implementation of technology. Through workshops our consultants identify areas of need to support this critical program within the organization, empowering stakeholders to accept and champion the changes to their areas.

Utopia’s Strategic Data Assessment program identifies the gaps between current state methods and future state needs through interviews and analysis. Data governance and change management concepts are key outcomes of this program, which also hits key areas of business readiness for a master data technical transformation. Other areas of assessment within strategic consulting include the Utopia Data Health Assessment (DHA) - a quantitative approach to identifying current state data quality issues, and Change Enablement Health Checks, which provide a holistic view of your organizational readiness for enterprise technology transformations.

How Utopia Can Help

Every retailer faces the challenge of effectively managing the creation and retirement of retail Articles, SKUs, etc. For the first time, SAP customers have an easy and integrated way to address this issue. MDG RFM provides flexibility for the merchandisers in the planning phase of master data. At the same time, it supports the governance model to enable the proper master data quality. The features of our MDG-RFM solution include:

Establishes a fully-auditable “maintain once – use everywhere” best practice
Reduces overall system maintenance by identifying defects early and ensures immediate compliance with corporate data standards
Flexible workflow capabilities allow for collaboration within the company, eliminating silos of decision-making
Allows the participation of external suppliers in the article creation process
Defines Governance of the article management process throughout the article creation process enabling required data quality
Reduces cost by eliminating redundant effort to maintain retail master data and avoid duplicates

BENEFITS

What are the main pain points for retailers today? Click here to view.
What are the main components of the MDG-RFM Solution? Click here to view.
SAP Video: Optimizing Master Data Governance for Retail and Fashion Enterprises.
For additional information for SAP Master Data Governance software, click here.

Features of Utopia Strategic Consultants:

Trusted advisors and thought leaders across all aspects of a transformational program.
Reduces overall system maintenance by identifying defects early and ensures immediate compliance with corporate data standards
Flexible workflow capabilities allow for collaboration within the company, eliminating silos of decision-making
Allows the participation of external suppliers in the article creation process
Defines Governance of the article management process throughout the article creation process enabling required data quality
Reduces cost by eliminating redundant effort to maintain retail master data and avoid duplicates

Training

Trusted advisors and thought leaders across all aspects of a transformational program.
Reduces overall system maintenance by identifying defects early and ensures immediate compliance with corporate data standards
Flexible workflow capabilities allow for collaboration within the company, eliminating silos of decision-making
Allows the participation of external suppliers in the article creation process
Defines Governance of the article management process throughout the article creation process enabling required data quality
Reduces cost by eliminating redundant effort to maintain retail master data and avoid duplicates

Going Above and Beyond

The Utopia advantage of these private classes is the ability for them to be augmented with custom content and the ability to utilize your data. Also, four add-on course modules exist to enhance the training and prepare your data integration and migration staff for complex projects.