Product Information Management: Your Digital Link to the Cloud

A personalized guide to mastering product data in a changing world.

Best-Practice Guide for a Unified Item Master

  • Product Release to Supply Chain Readiness

  • New Product to Omnichannel Commerce

Review item records

Review item definitions from new entities arising from mergers and acquisitions, new facilities, new partners, etc.

Standardize item definition

Determine common data attributes and definition. Facilitate stakeholder collaboration using secure social interaction.

Establish data governance

Define business rules including validation and classification, change-control processes, and approval routing.

Incorporate new items

Add products from new entities to master and centralize subsequent data management following defined governance.

Propagate product information

Refresh item data in new entities with master records and automatically synchronize updates from master.

Manage ongoing activities

Add, delete, or modify master item definition to meet the demands of new business requirements.

Tailored Action Plan

Item Mastering for the Value Chain

Best-Practice Guide for Product Commercialization

  • Dispersed Item Records to Unified Master

  • New Product to Omnichannel Commerce

Release design for production

Manage signoff process and monitor status via dashboards. Simplify task coordination through secure social collaboration.

Onboard released products

Add the new product, component, and structure definitions to the companywide central repository. Automatically validate data based on preset requirements and send exception notifications.

Add supply chain attributes

Collaborate to set item classification and parameters governing production, purchasing, and fulfillment. Allow organization-specific attributes and BOMs. Ensure tasks and approvals go to stakeholders only.

Ensure product readiness

Automatically validate product using preconfigured criteria. Streamline issue resolution and approval via rule-based task routing, dashboards, and secure social collaboration.

Propagate product information

Propagate product records to designated organizations including warehouses and plants. Automatically synchronize updates from the master.

Manage ongoing changes

Adjust item definitions and policies for new requirements. Enforce change-control process based on preset rules.

Tailored Action Plan

Product Commercialization

Best-Practice Guide for Omnichannel Commerce

  • Dispersed Item Records to Unified Master

  • Product Release to Supply Chain Readiness

Onboard new products

Add new products released from in-house development or sent by suppliers to centralized repository.

Validate data quality

Automatically check data validity such as completeness and formatting based on preset rules. Send exception notification to stakeholders.

Enrich product information

Collaborate to produce marketing and sales assets, including product collateral and catalogs for different channels and languages. Ensure tasks and approvals go to relevant stakeholders only.

Ensure product readiness

Automatically validate product data using preconfigured criteria. Streamline issue resolution and approval via rule-based task routing, dashboards, and secure social collaboration.

Propagate to channels

Automatically release approved product records to consuming channels, including web store, mobile app, retail POS, customer service, partner, and distributor.

Manage ongoing changes

Update item definitions and assets for new requirements. Enforce change-control process based on preset rules.

Tailored Action Plan

Omnichannel Commerce

Partner selection: Information for one product sent to three different contract manufacturers in three different formats.

Tailored Action Plan

Contract Manufacturing