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Product Information Manager

Product Information Management solutions consolidate distributed information sources into a consistent structure making the data available in a central repository. Product and content managers are given the possibility to modify and update product information via workflow-controlled business processes.

The way in which companies develop, store, interrelate, process and handle product information is directly reflected in their sales success. The reason for this is quite simple: product information constitutes the core of all business transactions/activities along the complete supply chain: without product information - no business.

The SellFast Product Information Manager module is the core component of the SellFast solution. It provides structure and tools to support all aspects of product information management and allows all those involved with the production and consumption of product information to share a common database of information.

The SellFast Product Information Manager aggregates distributed information in a central repository and establishes workflows that help to improve internal and external coordination of the authoring and maintenance of product information.

Advantages:

• New products are launched more quickly (time to market)
• Significant reduction of costs per product
• Increasing sales volumes
• Decreasing error rate for orders due to high quality product information
• Increasing customer retention due to high-grade data
• Reduced logistics costs
• Lowered inventory costs

Key features:

• Tools for aggregating data from various sources
• Data imports can be performed either on an ad hoc or on a scheduled basis using the import scheduler
• Storage of all product information in one central repository
• Online authoring and maintenance of product data
• Version control
• Editing of extended descriptions in the WYSIWYG text editor
• Comprehensive multimedia document management
• Support for complex product relations
• Storing customer specific product information
• Alternative display of products in product group or attribute group systems
• Comprehensive search functions including content management
• Support for multiple taxonomies (e.g. eClass, UNSPSC, ETIM etc.)
• Administration of arbitrary numbers of attributes and attribute values
• Support of Complex Price and Discount Models (e.g. Quantity prices, Periods of validity, Discount tables referring, Regionally dependent prices, Contracts)
• Standard Reports/Customer Report Generator
• Review and approval rules can be easily defined