Many companies that work with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Navision or Business Central work, manage Tens of thousands of article data records - sometimes also hundreds of thousands.
And somewhere in this flood of data sits someone with the task of "master data maintenance".
Let's be honest: Who is supposed to manage that - in normal day-to-day business?
Because master data appear harmless - but are business critical:
An incorrect decimal point in the unit of measure, a missing booking code, or a transposed number in the article number - and a machine stops, a delivery is delayed or an incorrect discount is booked.
So what to do?
There are exactly two ways:
🔹 Path A - Reports & Warnings:
You create regular Consistency reports from the ERP system (e.g. from Business Central) and receives the errors reported by e-mail.
This works - but is purely reactive and remains Manually complex.
🔹 Path B - AI-supported correction:
The master data managers are taught, how they use AI or automated scripts to fix thousands of errors at the touch of a button.
That sounds big, but it's not: with a little Power Query, a Python snippet or the right data logic, we can automatically match and correct "unit of measure = ST" with "STÜCK" or "stk", for example.
This not only saves time, but Brings back real control.
Conclusion:
➡️ Manuell klicken – oder automatisch korrigieren.
➡️ Kontrollverlust – oder Automatisierung mit Regeln.
➡️ ERP-Fehler – oder ein sauberer Datenstamm, der sich von selbst meldet.
You use Business Central, NAV or still classic Navision and want to know what's in your master data - and how you can clean it up automatically?
Do you have any questions or would you like to find out more about our methods? Get in touch with us - We show you how you can use your data for sustainable success.
