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July 21, 2022
The demands placed on data management are constantly increasing due to various factors. On the one hand, customers are demanding an ever-better shopping experience. On the other hand, suppliers and manufacturers must provide increasingly better product data that is adapted to digital commerce.
How can leading companies invest sustainably in data management? More and more product data from different suppliers and manufacturers is available in different formats and structures. With Onedot’s structured and automated product data onboarding process, companies can turn unstructured data into usable product data.
Product data onboarding with Onedot AI
Onedot has designed the first intelligent product data platform for the procurement, preparation, and syndication of product data in such a way that each individual step in the clearly structured process is indicated by the Onedot software with a confidence level based on a traffic light system. This allows Onedot users to see how confident the software is about the allocation and override it if necessary.
First, the various product catalogs from manufacturers and suppliers are loaded into the Onedot product data platform. In most cases, the manufacturer and supplier catalog formats are different versions of BMEcat, ECLASS, CSV, or Excel. These catalogs are then prepared for onboarding. Depending on whether they are existing products or new product groups and ranges, a product data comparison is carried out and the new or updated data is prepared.
The product data is then automatically assigned to the given categories of the desired target system. In the subsequent step, the manufacturer attributes are compared with the retailer attributes. As part of the normalization step, attribute values are standardized to the value lists and values for filter attributes. Finally, this step can also be checked for completeness. This automatically creates a file for each product data catalog that is read in, which can then be easily integrated into the desired target system.
Get started with automated onboarding
Companies require a significant amount of product information in the appropriate e-commerce quality. With the state-of-the-art, self-learning Onedot software, products can be brought online five times faster and in better quality, thereby increasing conversion rates by up to 10%. Thanks to Onedot AI, companies can automate supplier onboarding, digitize data maintenance processes, and significantly improve product data quality in the long term.