Your Expert Cluster joined a project to revise the nomenclature and functional description of wood-processing machinery. Our specific task was to derive rules for the univocal and reproducible definition of SAP idents, both for technical classification and for individual attributes. On the basis of expert knowledge about classification and reference identification, the expert team initially structured the available master data and then used a modular VBA application to generate univocal SAP idents from the short text description of functions and attributes.

HOMAG Group is based in Schopfloch, Germany. HOMAG is the world’s leading manufacturer of machines and systems for the wood-processing industry and trades. As a global player, the company operates international production plants as well as sales and service companies. With around 6000 employees, HOMAG has a presence in more than 100 countries and an estimated global market share of just under 30%