Case Study: Samtec Accelerates Data Discovery and Impact Analysis with Select Star

Optimizing a Global Supply Chain with Automated Data Discovery at Samtec

Samtec, a global manufacturer with 7,000 employees and 5 million+ SKUs, struggled with decades of siloed systems, tribal knowledge, and slow data discovery across its supply chain operations. Data teams often spent weeks ramping up on new projects, manually tracing dependencies, and relying on long-tenured employees to understand datasets, tables, and report usage.

To address this, Samtec implemented Select Star’s data catalog, lineage, ERDs, AI search, and Power BI impact analysis to centralize documentation and make data more self-service. Select Star helped cut project scoping time by up to 90%, reduced data discovery bottlenecks by 90%, and saved analysts 20+ hours per project, while turning impact analysis from hours into seconds.

Samtec

Austin Carver

Chief Data and Analytics Officer