Streamlined Construction Vendor Management

After a meticulous evaluation, Bird selected Semarchy xDM as the MDM platform based on the software capabilities’ POC results, business feedback, and overall performance score. The next phase was to select the right implementation vendor. D3Clarity was chosen as the implementation vendor of choice, recognizing our expertise in Semarchy and our ability to align with Bird’s project approach and deliver comprehensive managed services.

Utilizing D3Clarity’s MDM-as-a-Service offering, a centralized, cloud-first infrastructure strategy was created to reduce Bird’s infrastructure costs and enhance the scalability and automation of enterprise data management.

D3Clarity collaborated with Bird’s business and IT teams to design and deploy a production Vendor Master solution in under five months.

The team applied an agile approach to develop data models that supported each master object. Bird users now have the ability to see a vendor hierarchy, which wasn’t previously possible but has tremendous value in the realm of data quality and measurements. Authorship was enabled within the MDM solution, which enabled business users to initiate an addition or modification, with complete visibility of requests routed to the appropriate data owners for approval.

The centralized Vendor Master solution streamlines the Vendor creation process, prevents data duplication, enriches the data with corrected addresses and NAICS data, and integrates updates with various downstream systems. Frequent knowledge transfer sessions empowered Bird’s MDM team to cultivate proficiency in developing future enterprise MDM solutions and attain self-sufficiency in the ongoing operational maintenance of any new MDM solution.