Your ERP holds thousands of material records. Your warehouse knows what's in stock. Your procurement team is placing orders. The problem is that none of these systems are talking to each other.
By the time a buyer can see what's available, the purchase has already been raised. By the time an invoicing conflict surfaces, an outdated price book has already caused it. And somewhere in the middle, the same item exists under six different names across three different systems - and nobody quite owns the problem.
Material master data is supposed to be the foundation of controlled, efficient purchasing - but for most enterprises, it's a fragmented mess that nobody fully trusts.
This is the full capabilities breakdown of MarketMaterials, Axiom's material master data and inventory integration module, built to bring everything together at the point where it matters most: before the purchase is made.
Inside, you'll find:
- The Problem with Material Master Data - why fragmented records, siloed inventory, opaque supplier-material relationships, and manual price book maintenance are costing more than most teams realise
- How It Works - the full process from materials being loaded and suppliers linked, through to inventory being surfaced in real time alongside search results, and data being interrogated directly in-platform
- Key Features of MarketMaterials - including automated material master management, app-enabled operations and IoT integration, intelligent reordering and alerts, serialised product tracking, expiration date management, supplier-material linking, universal search integration, rich product data, and Axi-powered data chat and analytics
- MarketMaterials Benefits - from reducing duplicate spend and cleaning up material master data, to connected buying experiences, better supplier visibility, operational efficiency, and laying the foundation for autonomous procurement
- The Stats - 90% reduction in manual inventory counting time, 75% faster material lookup, 30% reduction in expired materials, and 95% elimination of stockouts
- Where MarketMaterials Sits in the Axiom Ecosystem - one platform, fully integrated across MarketPlace, MarketSource, and MarketPay
It is a more detailed read than most product pages, and deliberately so - because the problem it solves is more detailed than most people realise. By the end, you will have a clear picture of what clean, connected material data actually looks like in practice, and what becomes possible when Axi can act on it.