Master your material master data. Master your business.
Take control of your material master data with a platform built for precision, flexibility and collaboration, and integrated with AI.
Nexus simplifies complex workflows, enforces global data standards and centralises everything from digital assets to vendor input, so your team works smarter, faster and with total confidence.
What is Nexus?
Product information management for material master data.
Nexus is a cloud-based Product Information Management (PIM) solution that streamlines and standardises the creation, management and governance of material master data.
Integrated with Microsoft 365, Nexus lets you build customisable item templates, enforce data compliance and manage workflows with precision, all tailored to how your business operates.
Nexus was formerly known as XCPIM.
Key features
Everything your master data team needs in one place.
Microsoft 365 integration
Secure login and a seamless user experience.
Custom item templates
Create your own blueprints or use NATO standards.
Duplicate detection
Identify and resolve data redundancies.
Compliance scoring
Track attribute completeness with real-time scoring.
Attribute-based search
Find products using detailed attribute filters.
Role-based access control
Manage permissions with granular precision.
Version history and audit trail
Full traceability of every data change.
Workflow-driven task management
Automate approvals and assign tasks internally or externally.
Vendor master management
Vendor records validated against authority systems. See how.
Product tagging
Improve discoverability with custom tags.
Vendor master management
Vendor master data, validated at the source.
Your vendor master is where every payment starts. One wrong bank account, a lapsed tax status or a duplicate supplier costs real money. Nexus manages vendor master records the same way it manages materials, with structured templates, workflow and a full audit trail, and checks each record against the authority systems that hold the facts.
The usual way
A supplier emails a PDF form. Someone retypes it into the ERP. The bank details get a phone call, if anyone has time. Six months later an email arrives asking to change the bank account, and nobody can say who approved the last change, or whether the first one was ever checked.
With Nexus
The supplier captures their own details through a secure Nexus request. Company, tax and banking details are validated against the source before a person approves anything. Every later change is validated again, routed for approval and logged, so the next change-of-bank-details email meets a process, not a person under pressure.
Checked against the source, not taken on trust.
Company registration
Registration number, legal name and company status confirmed against the company registry, CIPC in South Africa.
VAT and tax status
VAT registration verified against SARS records, with tax compliance status captured and tracked on the record.
Bank account verification
Account holder, account number and branch confirmed with the bank through account verification before the first payment is made.
B-BBEE certificates
Level, issuing agency and expiry date captured from the certificate, with reminders before it lapses.
Central Supplier Database
CSD numbers recorded and checked for suppliers who also do business with government.
Duplicate and conflict checks
Matching on registration, VAT and bank details stops the same supplier, or the same bank account, being created twice.
From request to a trusted vendor record.
Step 1
Request
Raised internally, or completed by the supplier through a secure self-service link.
Step 2
Validate
Authority checks run automatically before anyone spends time on the record.
Step 3
Approve
Role-based workflow with segregation of duties between who captures and who approves.
Step 4
Activate
The approved record is released to finance and your ERP.
Step 5
Monitor
Expiry alerts, scheduled re-validation and re-approval of every change to banking details.
Less exposure to bank-detail fraud, faster supplier onboarding, and audit questions answered from the record itself.
Request a vendor master demoKey benefits
What Nexus does for your business.
Streamline operations
Optimise workflows to reduce delays.
Ensure data accuracy
Eliminate duplicates and incomplete entries.
Centralise product information
Consolidate all product data, digital assets and vendor details in one secure, accessible location.
Adapt to your business
Fully customisable to match your processes.
Collaborate with ease
Assign tasks to internal teams or external vendors.
Drive better decisions
Reliable, complete data fuels smarter strategies.
Nexus questions
Material and vendor master data, explained.
What is Nexus?
Nexus is a cloud-based Product Information Management (PIM) solution for creating, managing and governing material master data. It is integrated with Microsoft 365.
Was Nexus previously called XCPIM?
Yes. Nexus was formerly known as XCPIM.
Can we use our own item templates?
Yes. You can build your own item templates or use NATO standards.
Does Nexus manage vendor master data as well?
Yes. Vendor records get the same structured templates, workflow and audit trail as materials. Each record is also checked against the authority systems that hold the facts: CIPC company registration, SARS VAT status, bank account verification, B-BBEE certificates and the Central Supplier Database.
How does Nexus reduce bank-detail fraud?
Banking details are verified with the bank before the first payment. Every later change is validated again, routed for approval and logged, with segregation of duties between who captures and who approves.
Can suppliers capture their own details?
Yes. Suppliers complete their details through a secure self-service link, and authority checks run before anyone on your side reviews the record.
See Nexus in action.
Tell us about your catalogue and how your teams and vendors work with product data, and we will book a demo.