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How do you handle vendor master data governance across a large organization?

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Data governance assigns clear ownership of the vendor master, standardizes fields and naming, enforces validation and approval workflows for creation/changes, screens for duplicates and sanctions, and audits changes. Central governance (or a shared-service team) keeps data accurate across systems, reducing fraud, duplicates, and reporting errors.
Real-world example A central master-data team owns vendor creation, so all business units share one clean, validated supplier record.

Common follow-ups: Why centralize vendor master governance? | What controls sit around master changes?

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