Core records shared across activities, such as product, customer and supplier details.
Master data describes the main entities that business processes repeatedly use, including products, locations and business partners. Maintaining these records gives different activities a consistent basis for identifying what is being bought, planned, stored or sold. A product record, for example, supplies information that can be reused across many transactions. This makes master data different from a particular purchase order or stock movement, which records an event. Maintenance involves keeping the underlying details accurate and consistent so that later transactions and planning calculations use dependable information.
In job listings
Burberry’s Systems Analyst role in Castleford explicitly included supporting master data maintenance and governance activities. The wording places responsibility on the continuing care of shared records. In practical terms, that concerns the information business systems reuse, rather than just producing an individual report from those systems. Search local jobs for “master data”.
