Master data Three steps, the integration of the basic of the integrated on it

"If an enterprise wants to realize service, standardization and modularization, it must have integration of data, and master data management platform is an important means of integrating data." "China Pharmaceutical Group (" Chinese Medicine Group ") Information technology Expert Group leader, Information department director Dr. Revan in an interview with reporters pointed out.


from 2005 to establish the group coding standard System, by 2010 began the main data platform phase one, two, three project construction, the main data management platform for the new, after 8 years of accumulation and optimization, three new features on July 1, 2013 successfully on-line enabled, and stable operation so far nearly two months time.


Revan in his personal blog: "Nearly 380,000 of the main data coding records, covering drugs, pharmaceuticals, suppliers, customers, organizations, personnel, these groups in the day-to-day production, management and management of the data used in the process." It can be said that the main data coding has become a valuable group of information wealth, which also for the group to achieve integrated control, integrated operation has laid a reliable data base. ”


at present, the domestic development of the main data management enterprises have a lot of home, but the level is uneven, and the main data management platform built by the Chinese Medicine Group Three of its size, high quality, is the largest pharmaceutical enterprise master data management. To this end, the reporter into the Chinese medicine, to explore the domestic drug enterprises, the first large-scale main data platform is how forged.


main data Three-step walk


Chinese Medicine Group is directly administered by the State Council SASAC, China's largest, most complete industry chain, the most comprehensive strength of the pharmaceutical and Health industry group, its own 11 wholly-owned or holding subsidiaries and medicines holdings, medicinal shares, Tiantan Biology, modern pharmaceutical, consistent pharmaceutical industry 5 listed companies, 2012 turnover exceeded 165 billion. In the group of more than 500 corporate enterprises, only two level enterprises have more than 20. At the same time, as an important distributor at the national level, the group has more than 3,000 drugs, and the information of different dimensions, such as drug type, source, price and sales department, constitutes a "database" which is difficult to manage.


Centralized management of the Tertiary Branch and group headquarters on the unified cloud Platform integration of diversified business of complex data, the Chinese medicines Group will realize the integration of control written in the "155" Information Planning: "1" represents integration, the first "5" on behalf of the five business platform of the group, the second "5" represents the control system, Security system, standard system, information resources Integration System, human resources system of the 5 major IT systems. In the process of realizing "155", the main data platform based on Ufida UAP platform is undoubtedly a key step. The main data platform can manage and maintain the main data coding, realize the flexible customization function, and provide the rich data integration interface to realize the data integration with BI and application system.


Revan introduced, the group from 2010 to 2011 has started the main data management system phases project construction. First phase of the project to build the platform, the coding rules and classification are adjusted, and the data of the code is cleaned up. Phase Two project integrates the master Data Management system with the subsidiary ERP system through automatic SOA data integration, and makes the code declaration and change through the interface.


in the three-phase new feature, which was launched in July, the uniqueness of the main data encoding is established, and the functions of batch import and audit are increased, which can promote the coding efficiency, improve the quality of coding data and enrich the classification attribute of encoding. In addition, the storage data of the comments to fill out the small function, in case you could trace the reasons for tracing. At present, a total of nearly 150 companies, more than 400 users in the system for the main data coding of the Declaration, audit and so on.


information coding is the biggest problem


in the process of building the main data platform, information coding is the key and difficult. In this respect, Revan has proposed: "Many software applications are not the problem of the software itself, nor users do not want to apply, but many of the underlying data is not properly collected, which is the biggest problem of coding." Experience shows that the success of an enterprise application information, as long as the understanding of its information coding work can be really done, this work is done, other aspects of the problem is easier to solve. ”


since 2005, the group began to deploy information coding work, initially simply for the drug code, as a direct reference to the hospital's standard drug store code, there are a lot of problems that do not meet the actual situation; 2009, the Medicine and Ufida cooperation, thoroughly adjusted the coding standards and specifications, The coding is reconstructed on the UAP platform, and the original code is transformed into the encoding method suitable for the development of the traditional medicines. Eight years of grinding a sword, the long hard information coding work for the successful master data platform to lay a good foundation.


When summarizing the experience of building the main data platform, Revan summed up: "The first to have a forward-looking thinking hole check, determined, adhere to, continue to gradually form the core competitiveness of enterprises; second, the methodology should be correct, in line with the actual situation of the enterprise, at the beginning of the design to show the enterprise ERP and centralized control of the capacity; Third, on the platform to constantly adjust the optimization to ensure that all departments do their own duties. We continue on the Ufida UAP platform for rapid development, the pursuit of personalized applications, but also to coordinate the various branches of the group to maintain new applications, set up the relevant system performance evaluation, if not maintain good data will be responsible for this. Because the data once no one maintenance, can not carry out long-term operation, so must ensure that institutions, personnel, posts, responsibilities four in place. Professionals from different departments build and share a large data center. So I think, from the design concept to the actual operation, the main data platform of the best in the industry. ”

Seven abilities are realized on
cloud platform

After the
main data platform is completed, the profit is obvious for the group. The BI, pharmaceutical distribution, retail, pharmaceutical industry and supplier management systems of the group are all based on the main data platform, and through master data management, the data can be integrated effectively and interconnected.


"Our existing main data platform with the group of more than 150 two-level, three-level company's ERP, invoicing main business system docking, you can through the SOA data exchange. Subordinate companies through the ERP declaration of the main data standards, the unified approval by the group, this framework allows the data can be truly circulated to eliminate information islands. This group based master data can help us achieve business synergy, improve data quality, strengthen BI analysis and other functions. "Revan said.


in Revan view, the ideal cloud platform to have seven ability: the first layer in the IaaS layer to form interconnected, distributed, unified infrastructure platform, in recent years, in the construction of dynamic resource pool and the deployment of virtualization has done a lot of work; the second tier is to unify the data architecture, This ability is mainly embodied in the main data platform; The third layer is the data integration, the fourth layer is the application integration, the fifth layer is the process integration, this is also the hardest part, the sixth layer is real-time BI analysis, the seventh layer is through the portal website unification unfolds, through to these seven ability's continuous build, the integration platform can gradually form.


at present, the group's headquarters from the infrastructure to data architecture, data integration, application integration, process integration, portal sites have been unified rebuilt. In BI analysis, there is strong and weak, but the basic framework is also completed.


In the selection of the main data platform, Revan that Ufida UAP platform cost-effective, easy to develop, the operation of the process is relatively simple: "Foreign main data management products are mostly based on foreign ideas to do, there are many mature content, this is precisely why we do not choose the reasons for foreign products." We just want to choose a domestic manufacturer, so that the coding work more autonomous and controllable. Now the code has a complete understanding, hope that according to their own ideas to carry out custom development, Ufida UAP platform is indeed able to achieve rapid development, in line with our seven capacity needs. ”


in the long run, the main data platform has far-reaching impact. Revan that: "The main data platform in the first strategy is to achieve the integration of group management and Control, group headquarters in the future will form a cloud platform; Secondly, in order to realize the integration of business operations, we also plan to integrate the national pharmaceutical logistics into a logistics cloud platform; Third, the main data for the future of large data analysis ready, Traditional enterprises Unlike the Internet, there are so many data can be used for me, enterprises must collect the basic data in depth, if there is no basis for data, what to analyze the future? So the main data platform is a cornerstone, is more than the foundation of things. ”