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Manufacturer Normalization — Resolve 30,000+ Name Variants

EMERSON appears as 38 different strings in your ERP. PARKER has 68 known aliases. ABB has 56. Every variant means duplicated spend analysis, wrong supplier assignments, and procurement blind spots. We resolve them all.

16,500+
Canonical manufacturers
30,500+
Known aliases
68
Aliases for PARKER
7-char
Unique ESC-MFR IDs

How Manufacturer Normalization Works

1

Suffix Stripping

Strip company suffixes — LTD, LLC, GMBH, INC, CORP, AG, SA, PLC — while always trying the original name first.

2

Alias Matching

Look up each manufacturer name against 30,500+ known aliases — misspellings, abbreviations, former names, and regional variants.

3

Brand Hierarchy

Link subsidiaries and brands to parent companies. ROSEMOUNT maps to EMERSON. FISHER CONTROLS maps to EMERSON.

4

Acquisition Tracking

Track when companies were acquired, renamed, or merged. Historical data preserves the timeline for accurate reporting.

Real-World Examples

These are actual alias counts from our production database. Every one of these variants has appeared in real customer data.

PARKER
68 aliases
PARKER HANNIFIN
PARKER HANNIFIN CORP
PARKER-HANNIFIN
P-H CORP
PARKER FLUID CONTROL
PARKER FILTRATION
PARKERHAN
+61 more aliases
ABB
56 aliases
ABB LTD
ABB INC
ASEA BROWN BOVERI
ABB AUTOMATION
ABB DRIVES
ABB ROBOTICS
ABB POWER
+49 more aliases
EMERSON
38 aliases
EMERSON ELECTRIC
EMERSON PROCESS
EMERSON AUTOMATION
EMERSON CLIMATE
FISHER EMERSON
ROSEMOUNT EMERSON
EMERSON PROCESS MGMT
+31 more aliases

Why Manufacturer Normalization Matters

When the same manufacturer appears under 38 different names in your ERP, the consequences ripple through your entire operation.

Duplicate Purchases

Same part from the same manufacturer ordered under different names, inflating inventory and wasting capital.

Wrong Supplier Assignments

Preferred supplier agreements become impossible to enforce when you can't identify which records belong to which manufacturer.

Spend Analysis Impossible

You can't negotiate volume discounts or identify strategic suppliers when spend is fragmented across dozens of name variants.

Normalization Example
Your ERP Data
EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT
EMERSON PROCESS MGMT
EMERSON
FISHER CONTROLS
ROSEMOUNT INC
MICRO MOTION
Normalized
EMERSON ESC-MFR: RCBHKLC
Brands:
FISHER child of EMERSON
ROSEMOUNT child of EMERSON
MICRO MOTION child of EMERSON

Frequently Asked Questions

How many manufacturer name variants do you cover?
Our database contains over 16,500 canonical manufacturer records with more than 30,500 known aliases. This includes common misspellings, abbreviations, former names, subsidiary brands, and regional variations. The database grows with every customer engagement.

What about acquisitions and mergers?
We track acquisition history with effective dates. When Emerson acquired Fisher, we know that FISHER CONTROLS records from before the acquisition map to FISHER (now an EMERSON brand). Our brand hierarchy links subsidiaries to parent companies so your spend analysis reflects the true corporate structure.

Do you track brand hierarchy?
Yes. Each manufacturer can have parent-child relationships. For example, ROSEMOUNT, FISHER, and MICRO MOTION are all brands under EMERSON. This lets you roll up spend analysis to the parent company level or drill down to specific brands.

What if my manufacturer isn't in your database?
We flag unresolved manufacturers for review and suggest the closest match from our database. New manufacturers discovered during your project are added to the database with a unique ESC-MFR ID, so they're available for future projects. Our database grows with every engagement.

How does this integrate with our ERP?
We deliver a mapping file that links your raw manufacturer names to canonical names with unique ESC-MFR IDs. This can be imported as a lookup table in SAP, Oracle, Maximo, IFS, or any ERP system. The ESC-MFR ID gives you a stable, unique identifier for each manufacturer across all your sites.

How do you handle company suffixes like LTD, GMBH, INC?
We strip common company suffixes (LTD, LLC, GMBH, INC, CORP, AG, SA, PLC, and 20+ others) during matching, but always try the original name first. This means 'PARKER HANNIFIN CORP' and 'PARKER HANNIFIN' both resolve to the same canonical record.

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