The value of a cloud-based PIM approach is its ability to standardize and integrate data across solutions, applications, and databases.
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Best-Practice Guide for a Unified Item Master
Review item records
Standardize item definition
Establish data governance
Incorporate new items
Propagate product information
Manage ongoing activities
Tailored Action Plan
Item Mastering for the Value Chain
Your Challenge
“I need a more efficient process for defining, governing, changing, and publishing item master data.”
Your Objective
Establish a best-practice approach to managing your item master in a hybrid-cloud environment.
Your Action Points
Maintain unified and accurate item records for a 360-degree view of product information.
Perform real-time validations for completeness and accuracy.
Establish workflow and change-management processes.
Synchronize item data across cloud and on-premises applications.
Enable agility and reduce cost in the cloud.
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Best-Practice Guide for Product Commercialization
Release design for production
Onboard released products
Add supply chain attributes
Ensure product readiness
Propagate product information
Manage ongoing changes
Tailored Action Plan
Product Commercialization
Your Challenge
“I need to aggregate and manage complex product information to accelerate commercialization.”
Your Objective
Accelerate sales, marketing, service, and supply chain readiness to bring successful products to market.
Your Action Points
Streamline ideation to commercialization (I2C) processes on a single platform.
Establish workflow to aggregate required attributes.
Validate product data for commercial and supply chain readiness.
Rapidly publish accurate product information to all sales channels and business partners.
Best-Practice Guide for Omnichannel Commerce
Onboard new products
Validate data quality
Enrich product information
Ensure product readiness
Propagate to channels
Manage ongoing changes
Tailored Action Plan
Omnichannel Commerce
Your Challenge
“I need to standardize processes for faster time to market across web, mobile, print, and bricks-and-mortar channels.”
Your Objective
Provide a seamless buying and service experience to customers across multiple channels.
Your Action Points
Provide trading partners with a self-service application to load products and digital assets.
Centrally manage attributes, bundles, digital assets, and catalogs.
Maintain product data for different channels, geographies, and trading partners.
Publish consistent product data across various order-capture and fulfillment systems.
Partner selection: Information for one product sent to three different contract manufacturers in three different formats.
Tailored Action Plan
Contract Manufacturing
Your Challenge
“I need to collaborate better with my business partners.”
Your Objective
Enable close collaboration with partners for manufacturing, quality control, and supply chain efficiency.
Your Action Points
Centrally manage products and bills of material.
Ensure clean and consistent product data is shared with trading partners.
Enable efficient collaboration and change control.
Leverage real-time analytics and reporting to improve processes.