Description

TraceLink’s Master Data Exchange application helps companies create and maintain a central repository to store, administer, and maintain company, partner, and product master data that may live across multiple databases and systems across a company and its partners. 

Benefits

Managing master data is both critical to smooth business and supply chain operations, and challenging to manage as it often resides in different systems and is described in different ways. Master data management facilitated by Master Data Exchange supports a company’s operations by allowing them to:

• Develop and manage a single master data schema across all global requirements, allowing companies to populate only what is required for each country
• Populate transactional data interfaces with additional data fields that may be required by those transactions before outbound delivery
• Support regulatory reporting requirements with data that needs to be reported to the governments associated with the supply chain transactions
• Augment the display of data by providing critical contextual details such as business name, organizational addresses, and product description information
• Reduce the information that is exchange in transactions by standardizing on key shared business, location, and product identifiers which can be looked up in a master data repository

Capabilities and Features

Master Data Exchange provides extensive capabilities to manage challenging global company and product master data requirements across diverse and complex supply and trade partner ecosystems. 

• Manage product master data across a broad range of attributes to help inform business and compliance transactions templates
  • GTIN, NTIN, country drug codes, internal material codes
  • Target, export markets
  • Serialization packaging codes
  • Product status, regulatory requirements
  • Product attributes (strength, dosage, package size, unit of measure, scheduled drug, product origin, traceability required, etc.)
• Manage company and trade partner master data to facilitate the efficient and secure exchange of information between supply and trade partners
  • Global company identifiers (GCP, GLN, DUNS, CN, CNPJ, CIT, DEA, HIN, etc.)
  • Business types
  • Location codes (corporate, facility, store level)
  • Address information
  • License information (wholesale distribution licenses, DEA, etc.)
• Build flexible master data schemes based on unique country and channel requirements, publishing and exchanging only the necessary master data attributes
• Validate and enrich compliance messages sent to governments, and compliance or business messages exchanged with trade partners
• Leverage flexible data management capabilities depending on business and partner requirements
  • Automated XML data exchange with flexible business rules
  • Manual entry through the user interface
  • File upload
• Publish trade partner master data to facilitate new connections on the TraceLink Network to supply and trade partners