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May 23, 2024
The provision and procurement of product data are essential for retailers. However, obtaining supplier catalogs and files is cumbersome, time-consuming, and prone to errors for a variety of reasons. In addition to requesting supplier and manufacturer catalogs, these must be checked for completeness and imported into the appropriate target system in the correct format. Various steps are therefore necessary to ensure that the desired catalogs can be used, most of which must be carried out manually. Furthermore, the data procurement and preparation process is usually not clearly defined, which in turn leads to vague responsibilities.
It is clear that obtaining, confirming, or inquiring about new products is not only time-consuming, error-prone, and resource-intensive, but also accompanied by a jumble of emails. As a result, neither suppliers nor retailers can clearly track who has processed or received which catalogs and whether they are still up to date. To make these processes transparent, consistent, and efficient, it is worth introducing a supplier portal. With the introduction of Onedot’s product data platform, companies can digitize all processes related to product data management.
Procurement and provision made efficient thanks to premium supplier portal
The biggest problem with obtaining supplier and manufacturer catalogs is the administrative effort involved. The Onedot supplier portal makes this process much easier, as communication between companies is simple, direct, and transparent thanks to the platform’s chat function. This allows suppliers and manufacturers to ask questions about the format of the catalogs directly, communicate product updates, and quickly and efficiently provide catalogs for a wide variety of sales channels. At the same time, retailers can see exactly when which catalog versions or product updates were uploaded to the platform, where information is missing, and which catalogs need further processing. All this information and the associated tasks are easy to overview thanks to the intuitive user interface of the Onedot product data platform, enabling all stakeholders in data management to work efficiently and quickly.
In order to accurately map all processes digitally, the Onedot product data platform also offers a high degree of configurability. This means that responsibilities can be mapped, access to information controlled, and manual work steps digitized. Retailers also benefit from the fact that automated product data onboarding with just a few clicks. Product catalogs can be quickly and efficiently mapped to the company’s own data model by the Onedot AI in further processing steps and made available automatically for (digital) sales.
But it’s not just retailers who find Onedot software intuitive and efficient for product data procurement issues; suppliers also benefit from providing product catalogs via the Onedot product data platform. Catalogs can be provided in any format with a single click via the Onedot product data platform. Other possible uses of the Onedot product data platform for suppliers and manufacturers include the syndication options offered by the platform. This allows suppliers to quickly make their own data available to various retailers, easily communicate catalog updates via the platform, and easily distribute data to various retailers, marketplaces, and other sales channels.
Clear communication in product data management
Do you want to quickly map catalogs to classification standards such as ECLASS, ETIM, or UNSPSC automatically? Are you looking for ways to automatically map your catalogs to the data models of large retailers? Or do you need a supplier portal that not only supports a wide variety of catalog formats, but also allows suppliers to initiate the onboarding of product data themselves with a single click? However you are trying to further digitize your product data management, the Onedot product data platform can help you.
When digitizing your data management, rely on the most sophisticated artificial intelligence on the market, which has been trained with over 750 million SKUs from more than 1,000 manufacturers. The versatility of the Onedot product data platform means that all companies faced with complex product data situations on a daily basis can benefit. This is because not only the procurement of product data, but also the provision of constantly updated product catalogs must be optimized with a digital solution in order to break through complexities and reduce manual effort. For example, the Onedot product data platform can quickly prepare catalogs to common standards and thus prepare AI-supported catalogs for syndication without manual effort. Only those who bundle all product information in one place, prepare it, and distribute it to the appropriate locations without significant manual effort have an efficient digital solution for product data management.