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Renner GmbH wins PROZEUS business award for modern Product Information Management system by jCatalog
Swabian company receives award for successful use of eBusiness software in medium-sized business.
Cologne/Dortmund, 4 February 2009 - The PROZEUS business award was given out for the first time by the Federal Ministry of
Commerce and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie) at the evening reception of this year's PROZEUS
Congress Fair in Cologne.
The state-supported PROZEUS initiative provides consulting and promotion aids for introducing eBusiness solutions in SMEs.
By awarding this year's price to Renner, PROZEUS paid reverence to the company's role model position in using eBusiness
to optimize business processes through a shared use of data without media discontinuity.
Product Information Management at Renner GmbH
The pump and filter system manufacturer Renner with a total of 50 employees chose jCatalog's PIM solution in 2006 in order
to render internal processes more effective and to strengthen marketing and sales. They were supported in their plans by
the PROZEUS initiative.
Until 2006, product data management at Renner was done in several IT systems. Though these systems were linked, an
automated data exchange was not possible. Customer requests were processed manually on a case-related basis. Each individual
request therefore led to expensive, time-consuming internal activities, also in terms of extracting the necessary product
data information for data sheets and spare parts lists. This situation finally gave Renner the impetus to introduce a PIM
solution.
Product Information Management (PIM) provides cutting edge
"We share Renner's delight at this special award", says Product Manager Jens Thiemann from jCatalog. "Renner's successful
example shows that small and medium-sized enterprises increasingly opt for strategic eBusiness solutions like Product
Information Management to achieve long-term competitiveness".
Faced with international markets, increasing competition and individual customer requirements, SMEs, too, need to react
quickly and demonstrate flexibility in product communication. In order to respond to current situations, all product
information have to be constantly available in a central location and at the right time.
For SMEs, professional PIM solutions play an increasingly central role in corporate strategy. They provide a consistent
data source for all company departments, reduce product data management work and constitute a first-rate solution for different
cross media activities, e.g. data sheets, technical documentations, spare parts lists, electronic and paper-based catalogs.
Less work - excellent customer communication
With PIM by jCatalog, Renner GmbH is well equipped for the future: a central data management has been set up, spare parts
lists and data sheets for approx. 22,000 articles and product variants can be now produced in various languages by the mere
touch of a button. Moreover, the company can use the layout program by jCatalog to quickly and flexibly create its own layouts
for any type of use.
"We are very satisfied with our decision and the PIM solution provided by jCatalog" reports Managing Director Karin Renner.
"At the beginning of 2009, we additionally want to use jCatalog's Online Catalog and enable our customers to access product
information via the Internet by means of a password-protected area."
Renner GmbH develops and produces magnetically coupled centrifugal pumps, centrifugal immersion pumps and filter systems.
The customized products of this medium-sized company are based on individually assembled and manufactured components.
Renner meanwhile has a team of 50 employees at their production site in Maulbronn. Sales is taken care of by a network
of globally acting sales agents on defined target markets.
jCatalog Software AG is a leading solutions provider in the field of product information management and catalog management.
jCatalog solutions comprise the connection of the entire information chain, from purchase and catalog-based procurement
processes to synchronization, administration and dissemination of product information throughout all internal and external
channels within the enterprise, including cross media publishing.
Press contact:
Tanja Taube
jCatalog Software AG
Lindemannstr. 79
44137 Dortmund
Telefon: +49 (0) 231 3967-0
Email: tanja.taube@jcatalog.com
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