This part of ISO 8000 provides fundamental principles of a process-centred approach to master data quality management and requirements that can be used by an organization to implement master data quality management. It also contains an informative framework that identifies processes for master data quality management. This part of ISO 8000 can be used in conjunction with or independently of quality management systems standards, for example, ISO 9001.

The following are within the scope of this part of ISO 8000:

The following are outside the scope of this part of ISO 8000:

This part of ISO 8000 is intended for use by organizations that have multiple systems that share master data and/or that share and exchange data with other organizations and therefore need to manage the quality of their master data.