Introducing MatchAssist: Faster, Smarter Spare Parts Identification within SPARROW.Clean
Manufacturers rely on accurate spare parts data to keep operations running smoothly. Yet for most organisations, material catalogues are fragmented, inconsistent, and full of duplicates, as a result of years of manual entry, siloed systems, and incomplete information.
SPARROW.Clean was built to solve exactly this problem.
And now, with our new MatchAssist interface, cleaning and enriching your spare parts data has become faster, more transparent, and more intuitive than ever. This builds on an existing capability within SPARROW.Clean, now redesigned to provide greater clarity, better insights, and a far more efficient workflow.
Why MatchAssist Matters
Every manufacturer holds thousands of material records. Identifying which of these internal records correspond to real manufacturer parts under different names is essential for improving data quality, eliminating duplicates, and ensuring reliable ordering.
But doing this manually is labour-intensive, slow, and error-prone.
Our MatchAssist within SPARROW.Clean changes that.
SPARROW.Clean automatically compares your internal spare parts catalogue with manufacturer catalogues, supplier catalogues, and online data sources. It identifies potential matches, enriches incomplete records and highlights missing information. The underlying algorithm is designed to detect matches across multiple attributes, not just names or numbers, but also dimensions, technical specifications, manufacturer information, and descriptive text.
Our MatchAssist highlights which specific attribute triggered the match, giving users full transparency into why two items appear to belong together. The system evaluates how likely it is that two records describe the same part and helps you resolve “unclear parts” where critical attributes are absent. It provides a reliability score, forecasting how confident the system is in each proposed match. Your team then simply reviews and confirms the match, now with an interface designed for clarity and speed.
The result is a material master that becomes cleaner, more structured, and more reliable over time.
A User Experience Built for Scale
Our MatchAssist allows your team to handle extremely large data sets without losing control or visibility. The experience is designed to support operational teams who manage hundreds of materials per day.
What users appreciate most:
- Fast, intuitive comparison view that reduces cognitive load
- Clear visual highlights showing exactly which attributes match
- Simple, structured review flow that makes decisions straightforward
- A clean and consistent layout that surfaces the right information at the right moment
- Bulk actions that dramatically accelerate reviewing and approving matches
It’s everything operational or maintenance teams need to quickly verify information without navigating through multiple systems or spreadsheets.
Who’s Already Using It?
Industry leaders such as Bayer, MAHLE, and Avebe use SPARROW.Clean to harmonise their material master data and accelerate their transformation programmes. All of them are already using our MatchAssist to speed up material master harmonisation and strengthen their digital transformation efforts. They appreciate the level of transparency: they can see directly in the table, without opening the details, whether a part has a match, which helps them prioritise their work.
The Core Value for Manufacturing
MatchAssist advances our mission to help manufacturers build a trustworthy, high-quality spare parts database. The benefits go far beyond identifying the right part:
- Long-term data quality, ensuring consistency across plants and systems
- Reducing unnecessary inventory and procurement costs
- Direct ordering from the manufacturer, thanks to clear linkages to real catalogue items
It empowers maintenance, procurement, and data teams to work confidently with accurate information, and to spend less time manually searching, comparing, and correcting records.
If you would like to explore the benefits of SPARROW.Clean and MatchAssist for your organisation, we would be happy to show you in a short demo how to sustainably harmonise your spare parts data and use it more efficiently. You can book an appointment with our Sales team here.
In addition, our Quickscan gives you a fast, initial overview of the quality of your material master data – including duplicates, inconsistencies, and harmonisation potential.
