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Retail & FMCG · Professional experience
Multi-Store Enterprise Data Centralisation
Participation in a retail system conversion consolidating store-level data into a central environment.
Operational· pending verificationEmployer-owned — experience summary only
Publication draft: status, contribution and technical details require contributor approval. The architecture and implementation notes below are illustrative, not verified accounts of a client deployment.
Context & challenge
Store-level data maintained independently drifted apart, making central control of products and pricing difficult.
Objectives
- Consistent master data across locations
- Central ownership of product and pricing records
Solution approach
- Mapping store records to central identifiers
- Identifying and resolving conflicting attributes
- Coordinating data corrections with stores
Architecture
- Store systems
- Extraction
- Mapping & cleansing
- Central master data
- Store distribution
Simplified and anonymised. No private infrastructure details are published.
Important technical decisions
- Central source of authority per attribute
Operational considerations
- Coordinating many locations during cut-over
- Keeping trading uninterrupted
Results
Results pending verification. We only publish outcomes that have been confirmed.
Lessons learned
- Conversions succeed or fail on master-data ownership, not software.