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Supply Chain

A supply chain is a network between a company and its suppliers to produce and distribute a specific product to the final buyer. This network includes different activities, people, entities, information, and resources. The supply chain also represents the steps it takes to get the product or service from its original state to the customer.

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Create Vendor Catalogues Effortlessly: Use a PIM system

Managing vendor-supplied information can be a very time-consuming process for companies that deal with hundreds or thousands of products and have product data coming from various sources and/or numerous suppliers. A Product Information Management (PIM) system streamlines and automates supplier data inputs, saving a lot of time and energy that you can focus elsewhere. Here’s how it works.

GS1 and its Global Product Classification

We at Allium have recently been working on several Pimics projects involving standardized product data imports and exports using the GS1 format and that is why we write about it.

The dropshipping business: how Pimics can help

Have you ever thought about embracing the dropshipping business? How hard can it be to build a website and have others stock and ship the goods you sell online? Well, maybe the headache and the financial burden of storing and moving the physical items will be gone, but you still have to make the effort of building a comprehensive product catalogue, with a wealth of information about the stuff that you want to sell.

The BMECat advantage of Pimics

One of the most effective ways that you can populate your sales catalogue with product data using a PIM, is to employ standardized catalogue formats such as BMEcat or DataNorm, and standardized classification systems such as ETIM. Pimics supports all the mentioned formats plus others, allowing you great flexibility in effectively using data sources to your advantage while minimising manual intervention in the process of enriching the product data for the items that you sell.

4 Pains that lead to PIM adoption

Reality shows us that few companies include PIM in their systems architecture right from the start. Many of them realize the potential of PIM as they go along and, usually because they grow out of their initial 'shoes' they increasingly perceive shortcomings that only PIM can solve. This article highlights the most important shortcomings that companies usually face, and how they can be effectively addressed by adopting a PIM solution such as Pimics.

The importance of e-procurement is growing and thus also the need to replace all kinds of paperwork preferably by automatic electronic processes. That is the reason why we decided to dedicate the newest article to internationally respected standard of BMECat.

Classifications

You can make sorting of your products data easier with classifications. They allow you to categorize and describe your products and services in a uniform way so your partners will be able to understand and orientate in the data well. Let’s introduce the standard classifications like eCl@ss, ETIM or UNSPSC.

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