Master Data Ownership Matrix explains practical Digital Adaption support for UK SMEs, with a focus on data quality, ERP migration readiness, reporting trust, automation or delivery where it fits the page.
The Master Data Ownership Matrix helps SMEs assign business owners, technical owners, approvers and sign-off evidence for the master data domains that usually break ERP migrations and reporting trust.
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Use this matrix when nobody is quite sure who owns customer, supplier, item, stock, pricing, finance or reporting data. It is designed to make ownership visible before migration and reporting work gets expensive.
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Download Excel workbook| Data domain | Business owner | Technical owner | Approver | Evidence | Risk if unowned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customers | Sales or customer service lead | ERP or CRM admin | Finance or sales director | Duplicate report and active/inactive rules | Orders, credit control and reporting disagree |
| Suppliers | Purchasing or finance lead | ERP or finance admin | Finance director | Supplier master export and payment terms | Payment terms, bank details and purchasing reports drift |
| Items and products | Operations or engineering lead | ERP admin | Ops director | Item master, units of measure and categories | Stock, BOMs, costing and order fulfilment break |
| BOMs and routings | Engineering or production lead | ERP admin | Operations director | Approved BOM and routing list | Production planning and costing lose trust |
| Finance dimensions | Finance lead | Finance-system admin | Finance director | Chart of accounts and cost centres | Month-end and management reports do not reconcile |
| Report definitions | Finance and ops jointly | BI owner | MD or sponsor | Report catalogue and KPI definitions | Board pack and operational dashboards tell different stories |
This matrix supports ERP Data Readiness Review work, data-quality cleanup, source-to-target mapping, Power BI reconciliation and post go-live reporting rescue.
These resources are based on practical ERP migration, data-readiness and reporting-reconciliation controls: named owners, source inventories, issue registers, source-to-target maps, validation evidence and sign-off before leadership relies on the numbers.