T17

Systems and Data

Systems and Data: 5 courses and 25 lessons on ATMA. Every lesson is free to read, with an Excel template for each course.

T17-C01 Data Ownership and Data Quality

1. Who owns each piece of order data from buyer request to shipment
2. Keeping one approved version when several people update the same order information
3. Master data and transaction data: what must stay stable and what changes with each order
4. Checking data at each hand-off before an error reaches the next department
5. Building a data ownership and data-quality worksheet for a live order

T17-C02 ERP, PLM and Business-System Roles

1. What ERP, PLM, workflow tools and spreadsheets are each meant to control
2. Where product specifications, bills of materials and revisions should be controlled
3. Where purchase orders, inventory, invoices and financial transactions should be controlled
4. Passing information between systems without duplicate entry or conflicting versions
5. Deciding which system should own each type of business information

T17-C03 Digital Critical Path and Workflow Control

1. Turning an order critical path into a digital workflow with owners, dates and status
2. Linking dependent milestones so one late task shows what it will delay next
3. Using alerts and escalation rules to manage exceptions instead of chasing every task
4. Keeping approvals, materials, production and shipment updates in one workflow
5. Building a digital critical-path tracker for a live order

T17-C04 Reporting, KPIs and Decision Data

1. Defining a KPI by the decision it is supposed to support
2. Leading and lagging KPIs: seeing a problem before and after the result is known
3. Checking the data behind a dashboard before trusting the number on screen
4. Turning a management report into actions, owners and follow-up dates
5. Building a KPI and decision-data workbook for regular management review

T17-C05 Data Governance and When to Move Beyond Spreadsheets

1. Setting data responsibilities, access rights and change control across a business
2. Using permissions and an audit trail to know who changed what and when
3. Recognising when spreadsheets have become a business-control risk
4. Preparing data and working methods before moving to a shared business system
5. Building a decision tool for when to keep, improve or replace a spreadsheet process

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