{"id":21238,"date":"2022-07-26T09:27:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/?p=21238"},"modified":"2023-06-14T08:37:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T08:37:59","slug":"significance-of-data-engineering-in-sourcing-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/de\/blog\/significance-of-data-engineering-in-sourcing-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Significance of Data Engineering in Sourcing Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_61 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" >Inhaltsverzeichnis<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #000000;color:#000000\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #000000;color:#000000\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/de\/blog\/significance-of-data-engineering-in-sourcing-analytics\/#Data_Engineering\" title=\"Data Engineering\">Data Engineering<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/de\/blog\/significance-of-data-engineering-in-sourcing-analytics\/#Typical_Sourcing_Systems_landscape\" title=\"Typical Sourcing Systems landscape\">Typical Sourcing Systems landscape<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/de\/blog\/significance-of-data-engineering-in-sourcing-analytics\/#The_Implication_of_a_Disparate_ecosystem\" title=\"The Implication of a Disparate ecosystem\">The Implication of a Disparate ecosystem<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/de\/blog\/significance-of-data-engineering-in-sourcing-analytics\/#Implication_on_Data\" title=\"Implication on Data\">Implication on Data<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/de\/blog\/significance-of-data-engineering-in-sourcing-analytics\/#Significance_of_Data_Engineering\" title=\"Significance of Data Engineering\">Significance of Data Engineering<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/de\/blog\/significance-of-data-engineering-in-sourcing-analytics\/#Data_Engineering_Challenges\" title=\"Data Engineering Challenges\">Data Engineering Challenges<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/de\/blog\/significance-of-data-engineering-in-sourcing-analytics\/#Need_for_a_unified_Sourcing_Solution\" title=\"Need for a unified Sourcing Solution\">Need for a unified Sourcing Solution<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-data-engineering\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Data_Engineering\"><\/span>Data Engineering<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Data engineering aims at making the data received and generated across various information systems of the enterprise useful and accessible. In the context of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3bNcLfS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sourcing and Procurement Analytics<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, its primary objective is to improve the reliability, accessibility, and coherence of the data so that slicing and dicing across disparate dimensions become possible resulting in useful and \u00a0not-so-obvious insights from the data.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Data engineering is the process of collating, transforming and relating data of different business process systems into a shared repository with secured access to appropriate stakeholders.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-typical-sourcing-systems-landscape\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Typical_Sourcing_Systems_landscape\"><\/span>Typical Sourcing Systems landscape<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Sourcing has evolved into a critical business process over the last few decades. What started as a means to procure materials and services in the most cost-effective method has transformed into a C-suite skill that is pivotal for sustainable business success.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Along with the evolution of Sourcing, information systems designed to execute different business processes continued to evolve too.\u00a0 Such evolution was primarily horizontal with the induction of several IT applications specializing in specific areas of sourcing into the Enterprise IT landscape.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Today, the IT ecosystem of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3bSh4qh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sourcing process<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in large enterprises typically looks like this:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" class=\"wp-image-21305\" src=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-01-1024x536.png\" alt=\"IT Systems used in Source to Pay process\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-01-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-01-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-01-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-01-16x8.png 16w, https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-01.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It becomes obvious from the picture that the ecosystem consists of disparate systems coming from different technologies working together to meet the business process goals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-implication-of-a-disparate-ecosystem\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Implication_of_a_Disparate_ecosystem\"><\/span>The Implication of a Disparate ecosystem<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>An ecosystem with such several IT applications from technologies from different periods working together brings its own challenges including the following:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Lack of end-to-end automation<\/li>\r\n<li>Lack of cohesive User experience<\/li>\r\n<li>Missing business process steps<\/li>\r\n<li>Lack of agility to respond to changing business needs<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"131\" class=\"wp-image-21316\" src=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-02-v3-1024x131.png\" alt=\"The Implication of a Disparate ecosystem\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-02-v3-1024x131.png 1024w, https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-02-v3-300x39.png 300w, https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-02-v3-768x99.png 768w, https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-02-v3-16x2.png 16w, https:\/\/merlinsourcing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/data-eng-info-02-v3.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Another important implication of this ecosystem is the lack of complete, correct, and cohesive data to make timely and correct business decisions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-implication-on-data\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Implication_on_Data\"><\/span>Implication on Data<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Data generated from such systems usually have the following challenges:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-time-periods-do-not-match\">Time periods do not match<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>One of the systems can generate weekly data while another can only bring out monthly data.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-transaction-integrity-does-match\">Transaction integrity does match<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>While a purchase ordering system may have all orders including incomplete ones, a customer-facing system will need only accepted orders.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-perspectives-of-dimensions-do-not-match\">Perspectives of dimensions do not match<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Supplier\u2019s geographical regions may differ in how orders are grouped by regions.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-unique-identity-of-business-entities-does-not-match\">Unique identity of business entities does not match<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>For example, a supplier may be identified by a unique number in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ywxQ6e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lieferantenbeziehungsmanagement<\/span><\/strong><\/a> system. However, the supplier maybe identified using a different identifier in your PO management system. Now, since the data of business entities (in the above example, supplier) exists in multiple systems, it can be challenging to find all records that pertain to the entity. There may not be a unique identifier for every business entity to indicate which entity from one system correspond to those in other systems.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-missing-data-elements\">Missing data elements<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>A data key used to combine more than one entity may be missing<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>These challenges create data silos making them complex to bring such unreliable data structures together to make a meaningful impact.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-significance-of-data-engineering\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Significance_of_Data_Engineering\"><\/span>Significance of Data Engineering<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>These challenges make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/content\/data-engineering-a-quick-and-simple-definition\/\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Data Engineering a significant component<\/span><\/strong><\/a> of making data relevant and complete for sourcing and procurement analytics. Data Engineering is the process of aligning all possible elements of data entities across each other so that meaningful insights can be derived from them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Data Engineering also involves the step of finding missing elements in data entities and replacing them with meaningful default values.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-data-engineering-challenges\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Data_Engineering_Challenges\"><\/span>Data Engineering Challenges<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Along with the needs and benefits of Data Engineering, there are challenges as well:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Data Engineering takes an inter-disciplinary effort of combining both business and technology teams to understand challenges and bridge data gaps \u2013 It is hard to get to this<\/li>\r\n<li>It is hard to imagine every possible data gap upfront and design \u2013 Design needs to be responsive and agile and quickly address challenges as they pop-up<\/li>\r\n<li>Data Engineering is a time-consuming process both in design and execution \u2013 Adds a significant lag between data origin and its availability for analytics<\/li>\r\n<li>Data Engineering is based on several assumptions \u2013 These assumptions reduce the quality of data and hence the quality of analytics too<\/li>\r\n<li>Connected systems of the ecosystem go through changes \u2013 Data Engineering assumptions continuously get impacted and hence need continuous changes as well<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-need-for-a-unified-sourcing-solution\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Need_for_a_unified_Sourcing_Solution\"><\/span>Need for a unified Sourcing Solution<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Though Data Engineering is one of the steps required to make sure that data from disparate systems talk to each other, no amount of Data Engineering effort will be an effective replacement for a cohesive system that collates all data internally.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>RheinBr\u00fccke\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3yQuNHl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MeRLIN<\/span><\/strong><\/a> is a Sourcing Solution for Direct &amp; Indirect Procurement that offers a seamlessly integrated sourcing process automation with supplier relationship management and planning functions augmented by advanced analytics. 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