With the long-term goal of bringing merchandising functionality and master data into a one environment, this globally recognized retail corporation made the strategic decision to migrate to S/4 HANA and employ a data governance strategy that includes MDG. This decision is predicted to reduce the overall timeline of their global program portfolio from 3.5 years to 2 years. Given the complexity and known data quality issues in their legacy environment, a homegrown application that has been running since the 1980s, there was a strong need to bring on an expert-leading migration team.