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Atlas | Supplier Data Foundation

Your ERP migration won’t fix bad supplier data. Atlas will.

Most ERP and S2P implementations don’t fix vendor data. They transfer it. Duplicate records, unresolved legal entities (companies whose registered identity has never been verified), and incomplete ownership hierarchies move from the old system to the new one, and the problems compound. Atlas resolves your vendor master before migration begins so the data your new system runs on is verified from day one. 

KEY CHALLENGES

When vendor data is broken, migrations fail to deliver

The data quality problem doesn’t go away when you switch systems. It goes with you. 

Duplicate records
Duplicate records carry forward

Thousands of duplicate supplier entries follow your data into the new ERP, inflating costs and fragmenting spend visibility from the start.

legal entity data
Unresolved legal entities stall go-live

When vendor records can’t be matched to verified registered company identities, migration teams spend weeks in manual reconciliation that delays cutover.

parent-child and supplier hierarchy
Hierarchy gaps break reporting

Incomplete parent-child ownership structures mean your new system still cannot answer: how much are we spending with this supplier group?

Stale data
Data quality decays within months

A one-time cleanse before go-live is not a solution. Without continuous maintenance, the same fragmentation resurfaces before the project is closed. 

The Solution

What Atlas delivers for ERP and S2P migrations

Atlas is the supplier data foundation your migration depends on. 

Atlas resolves your vendor master against 239M+ legal entities (registered company identities) across 145 countries, enriches every record with 350+ attributes, and maintains data quality on an ongoing basis so your new system starts clean and stays that way. 

1
Vendor master resolution before go-live

Atlas matches your existing supplier records against its proprietary legal entity dataset, surfacing duplicate entries, resolving naming inconsistencies, and standardizing records against verified company registrations before migration begins.

2
Corporate hierarchy mapping

Verified parent-child and ultimate ownership relationships are mapped across your supplier base so consolidated spend, risk exposure, and reporting work correctly from day one in the new system.

3
350+ enrichment attributes per supplier

Every record is enriched with firmographic data, ownership structure, diversity certifications, ESG attributes, and compliance flags, all anchored to a verified legal entity (registered company identity).

4
Continuous maintenance, not a one-time cleanse

Atlas maintains your vendor master on an ongoing basis. New suppliers are resolved, existing records stay current, and data quality does not decay between migration milestones.

5
Native integration with your ERP and S2P stack

Atlas connects to SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, Ariba, Coupa, and Workday so clean data flows directly into your new environment without manual handoffs.

The Value

What your teams gain

Procurement and Vendor Master Teams
✓ Know exactly how many unique suppliers are in your file before migration begins

✓ Surface and resolve duplicates at scale, without a manual data-cleansing project

✓ Enter day one in the new system with a verified, enriched supplier record for every vendor
IT and Data Governance Teams
✓ Meet go-live deadlines with a clean, structured data handoff your architecture requires

✓ Connect Atlas via native integrations to SAP, Oracle, Ariba, and Coupa

✓ Audit every match against its source: transparent confidence scores and full provenance, no black-box methodology
Finance and AP Teams
✓ Eliminate duplicate payment exposure caused by fragmented vendor records

✓ Gain verified hierarchy data for spend consolidation and financial reporting

✓ Reduce manual reconciliation in the new system from the moment it goes live

How Kraft Heinz used Atlas for post-merger ERP integration

Following the merger of Kraft and Heinz, the combined organization needed to reconcile supplier data across multiple systems, identify and resolve duplicate records, and establish a single clean supplier identity as the foundation for SAP-based spend reporting. Atlas matched every vendor record to a verified legal entity (registered company identity), enabling the team to unify parent-child relationships and roll all spend up to a single parent entity without manual grouping. 

We were able to do a really quick ROI on just the proof-of-concept records and it’s going to save us almost $1 million worth of maintenance a year.

Stefanie Fink

Head of Global Data & Digital Procurement, Kraft Heinz

Kraft Heinz

The cost of carrying bad data into a new system

Gartner puts the average annual cost of poor data quality at $12.9 million per organization. For companies mid-migration, that number compounds: implementation overruns, delayed go-live timelines, and a new system running on the same fragmented records as the old one. 

Atlas ensures the ROI of your ERP investment is not undermined by the data it runs on. 

AI & Analytics Readiness

For teams whose analytics and AI initiatives are blocked by data quality issues.

M&A Vendor Master Integration

For organizations merging supplier records after an acquisition.

Going into a migration? Start with the data.

Talk to an Atlas specialist about what your vendor master needs before go-live.

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