Roles

Supply chain, Sales

 

Challenges

You need to respond to requirements from clients (retailers) for communicating product, pricing, and promotional information, successfully making the transition from paper to electronic exchanges. You need to align data between clients’ tools (at the source of the data) and retailers’ repositories.

  • Supply chain service needs to guarantee conformity of product information and ensure that the data is up to date
  • Sales service needs to guarantee pricing data, through a tool that responds to the reactivity expected by their clients
  • 1SYNC clients need to turn “Think globally, act locally” from a slogan into a reality

Trace One can help

Catalogic PIM GDS is a tool used by multinational enterprises for storing and sending product information about each of their target markets to their entire client base. It integrates:

  • Universal import mechanism using pivot format in CSV or XML files
  • Ergonomy refined in widespread use for managing sending information logistic, pricing, and promotional information in retail environments
  • User club (the CDG) and user conference (3C)

Benefits

  • Increased productivity throughout the global process
  • Reduction of administrative tasks
  • Reduction in disputes resulting from misaligned data
  • Improvement in time-to-market from product listing to point-of-sale

Features

  • Interfaces with all client-internal data stores  through a universal standard connector.
  • A genuine PIM tool (Product Information Management) in SaaS mode responding to the needs of enterprises at all scales, from small  to multinational enterprises: multi-entity management, user profiles, customized product sheets, full parameter settings, bulk modifications.
  • 100% response (Basic article+Price) to the information expected by retailers in production on electronic communication channels (Peer-to-peer, and GDSN), in managing promotions or synchronizing catalogues (Carrefour, Provera, EMC, Galec).
  • Send product and pricing information to all clients by generating it in paper formats used by retailers / clients (Microsoft Excel, specific or generic).
  • Publishing (uses Web services to update Web sites, updating and generating product sheets in PDF format).