Confident ERP Migrations: How a Global Manufacturer Validates Data Quality Across Every Business Acquisition

The Challenge: Growing by Acquisition — and the Data Problem That Comes With It

This multinational manufacturer grows in part through acquiring smaller businesses. It’s a proven strategy — but it comes with a significant operational challenge: the acquired company’s data.

Before a newly acquired business can be fully onboarded onto the enterprise ERP system, its data has to meet the parent organization’s business rules. Customer records, inventory data, sales quotes — everything that will eventually live in the enterprise ERP needs to be structured correctly, formatted consistently, and compliant with a comprehensive set of data policies built up over years of enterprise operations.

The problem is that smaller acquired companies rarely meet these standards out of the gate. Their data was built to serve their systems, not the enterprise’s. Field formats differ. Required values are missing. Business rules that the enterprise takes for granted simply weren’t enforced in the acquired company’s environment.

If these data quality problems go undetected and the migration happens anyway, the results are painful: corrupted records, failed ERP processes, manual cleanup work measured in weeks, and loss of confidence in the data at exactly the moment leadership is trying to integrate a new business.

The data team needed a way to continuously validate data quality throughout the entire onboarding process — running checks every day, across every relevant data domain, and surfacing any compliance gaps before they could become migration problems.

What They Needed

• Daily automated validation — data quality checks needed to run every day throughout the onboarding process, not just at the point of migration.
• Multi-domain coverage — checks needed to span customer information, inventory data, and sales quotes — every data domain that would eventually migrate to the ERP.
• Rule-based SQL queries — the organization’s ERP compliance rules needed to be expressed as SQL queries that could flag non-compliant records precisely and reliably.
• Results delivered to the right people — compliance status needed to reach the onboarding team and management clearly, without them having to query a database themselves.
• Self-hosted deployment — acquired company data is sensitive. It could not pass through cloud infrastructure outside the enterprise’s control.
• Scalable across multiple onboarding processes — the organization acquires businesses regularly. The solution needed to support multiple concurrent onboarding workflows.

The Solution: Aurum as a Continuous Data Quality Engine

The organization deployed Aurum to serve as the data quality validation layer between acquired company systems and their enterprise ERP. Each acquisition triggers a structured onboarding workflow, and Aurum runs at the center of it.

Daily Compliance Queries — Automated

For each onboarding engagement, the data team defines a library of SQL queries in Intercepts. Each query encodes a specific ERP compliance rule — a check against customer record completeness, an inventory field format validation, a sales quote business rule verification.

Once configured, Aurum’s scheduler runs these queries every day, automatically, against the acquired company’s database. No manual query execution. No risk of a day being skipped. The checks run consistently throughout the entire onboarding process — which may last weeks or months depending on the complexity of the acquisition.

Coverage Across Every Data Domain

The daily validation suite spans the full breadth of data that will eventually migrate to the enterprise ERP:

• Customer information — name formats, address completeness, required identifiers, duplicate detection
• Inventory control — part number formats, unit of measure standards, required classification fields
• Sales quotes — pricing rule compliance, required approval fields, customer linkage integrity

Each domain has its own set of queries, each targeting a specific rule. When a query returns results, it means records exist that don’t comply. The onboarding team knows exactly what to fix — and exactly when it’s been fixed.

Results Delivered to Management

Query results are surfaced through a web portal, giving both the onboarding team and management continuous visibility into compliance status. Rather than waiting for a one-time pre-migration audit, leadership can see the state of the acquired company’s data any day throughout the process. The trajectory — how many compliance issues remain, how fast they’re being resolved — becomes visible and manageable.

Confidence at Migration Time

When the daily queries come back clean — when every compliance check passes — the organization has the evidence-based confidence that the migration will land correctly. The data has been validated continuously. The ERP won’t receive records it can’t process. The migration team isn’t flying blind.

The Results

• Continuous compliance visibility — the onboarding team and management know the state of the acquired company’s data every single day, not just at migration time.
• Problems caught early — compliance gaps are surfaced daily while there’s still time to fix them, instead of being discovered at the point of migration when remediation is most expensive.
• Confident ERP migrations — when the migration happens, the data team has weeks or months of daily validation results behind them. They know the data is clean.
• Scalable process — the same Aurum configuration approach applies to each new acquisition. The data team builds a validation library once and reuses the framework.
• Management-ready reporting — compliance status reaches leadership automatically through the web portal, without requiring manual report preparation.

Why This Use Case Matters Beyond This Customer

This isn’t just a story about one manufacturer. It’s a pattern that applies to any organization that needs to continuously validate data quality before a major system migration or integration:

• Companies onboarding acquired businesses onto enterprise systems
• Organizations migrating legacy systems to modern ERPs
• Businesses consolidating data from multiple locations or divisions
• Any team that needs ongoing evidence that their data meets defined standards before a high-stakes cutover

Intercepts turns compliance rules into scheduled, automated, daily SQL checks — and delivers the results to the people who need to act on them. The migration problem becomes a daily hygiene problem, and daily hygiene problems are manageable.

Technical Details

• Deployment: Self-hosted on customer’s Windows Server infrastructure
• Database platform: Microsoft SQL Server
• Connected servers: 5 database server instances
• Query volume: 10,000+ automated validation queries per month
• Validation cadence: Daily, throughout the full onboarding process
• Data domains covered: Customer information, inventory control, sales quotes
• Results delivery: Management web portal
• Monitoring: Full execution logging via Aurum’s Intercepts Result Log and Scheduler Log