Start with Data and Winshuttle To equip you with more information about our PIM and MDM vendor partners, we set them some homework! 5 questions on their perspective of the product data management market, what their solution offers, and the kinds of customers they work with. Below, our vendor partner Winshuttle provide the answers about… Read More »PIM vendor series: Winshuttle
What is PIM in eCommerce? PIM in eCommerce is designed to make your day-to-day operations as easy, streamlined, and rapid as possible. Choosing the right PIM solution will reduce the time, expense, difficulty, and setbacks often associated with keeping an e-commerce business at the competitive coalface. What does PIM stand for in ecommerce? PIM in… Read More »PIM in eCommerce
Session 2: Mastery & Enrichment Consumer retailers and industrial distributors alike can add to the volume of product data, and enhance its value for the best possible customer experience, trustworthy business analytics, and insight. Webinar Series:How to create value for your business and customers through product data management Session 2: Mastery & Enrichment Wednesday 10th… Read More »Webinar Series: How to create value for your business and customers through product data management – Part 2
Clearly, a data migration tool must possess features like flexibility, scalability and ease of use for those stakeholders with minimal technical expertise. Additionally, to add agility to the endeavour, it requires an intuitive user interface and as wide a range of functionalities as necessary. No single off-the-shelf tool exists to fit all data migration projects.… Read More »Data migration tools
Data migration testing needs to be addressed in the preparatory phase, before moving to the data migration project. Ensuring verification and validation of the product data to be migrated significantly reduces the inherent risk involved. Pre-migration Certain data migration testing steps should be taken before entering the main project phases: Data cleansing In the data… Read More »Product Data Migration: Testing
What PIM brings to marketing teams Manufacturers, distributors, and retailers need PIM more than they ever have. The widespread shift to eCommerce models in both B2C and B2B has generated a broad variety of different sales channels, platforms, which has created a need for a scalable way to ensure customers get complete, correct, up to… Read More »PIM for marketing
No two data migration projects are the same, so the methodology used will vary from case to case. However, for Start with Data, the basis of any successful transformation project lies in the application of our four-step model. At Start with Data, we appoint, at minimum, two key migration figures: The Data Lead (Managing or… Read More »Product data migration – the process
The changing eCommerce landscape There are many more regular eCommerce customers than ever before, and they are expecting digital channels to deliver a very high baseline standard for the product information they need to make purchasing decisions. This also applies to B2B customers with industrial manufacturers and distributors. Purchasing behaviour has changed notably and the… Read More »PIM consultancy: The benefits of using a consulting partner
As digital commerce becomes embedded in our everyday lives, manufacturers, distributors and retailers face the challenge of satisfying customers whose profiles are rapidly evolving: That’s why PIM software solutions are becoming the go-to solution for businesses. It centralises the ‘golden record’ of all product data and offers features which integrate with various parts of the… Read More »PIM solutions: 10 things to look for
The eCommerce landscape has changed dramatically in the last couple of years, and statistics suggest that this trend is only going in one direction – omnichannel eCommerce is here to stay and is destined to dominate. Alongside this accelerated trend, the amount of product data being generated is growing exponentially, as are the risks of… Read More »The importance of product information management
What are industry data standards? In March 2021, the International Data Corporation (IDC) noted that “The amount of digital data created over the next five years will be greater than twice the amount of data created since the advent of digital storage. The question is: How much of it should be stored?” As the volume… Read More »Industry Data Standards – ETIM, BMECat, IceCat, GS1
Here’s another of our conversations in our ‘A day i the life of…’ series with the specialist associate consultants working with us here at Start with Data.This interview discusses the importance of data governance as an ‘umbrella’ for covering company data and looks at the key components of a successful data governance framework. Let’s kick… Read More »A day in the life of a…..data governance consultant
In November 2020, internet food sales increased 107.8 percent compared with the same month in 2019. The big players (and, in fact, most companies) in the FMCG industry are having to re-evaluate their digital strategies and inventory management. They will need to be more digitally agile and equipped to leverage these online opportunities by having… Read More »The product data onboarding challenge for FMCG manufacturers
Scalability Inbuilt scalability requires a solution which can deal with an infinite number of product descriptions and visuals, thousands of SKUs and enormous volumes and varieties of attributes from multiple suppliers. Nowadays, PIM functionalities enable delivery of product data across a wide range of distribution channels and the fact that all product data is concentrated… Read More »Industrial manufacturers: the product data onboarding challenge
The technology-driven capabilities of a PIM solution provide a single, centrally controlled hub of product information, allowing companies to consolidate all their product data in one place. The aim is to store and deploy. When used as intended, this ‘golden record’ for every product data entity can be used organisation-wide, and guarantees a single, high-quality… Read More »Three benefits of product data management for manufacturers
For manufacturers, the benefits of implementing product data management systems are various. Below, we focus on some of the most common use cases which highlight why product data management is an essential tool in today’s fast-moving manufacturing environment. Product data and the value chain Manufacturers generate product data at every stage in the value chain.… Read More »Five common product data manufacturing use cases
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”Benjamin Franklin, one of the 8 founding fathers of the USA. The technology solution which clients choose for their PIM is important. However, what is more important is the strategy behind the overall goals of this change, and how to measure the progress towards their achievement. The… Read More »Fail to prepare for PIM, prepare to fail at PIM
Establishing the objectives for discovery, design and build of a PIM solution The most crucial phase of a PIM implementation project is how well the first stage, discovery, is executed. Our clients wish to put in place a scalable, flexible and future-proof technology architecture to support their business strategies. That transformative process is only achievable… Read More »The Ins and Outs of a PIM project
The drive towards technology-enabled industry 4.0 is revolutionising industrial manufacturing sectors. The importance of leveraging data-driven transformation lies in being able to leverage the emerging opportunities to create added value. Manufacturers ahead of the curve are reimagining their business models to convert themselves into providers of value-added services. Those who aren’t using equivalent power to… Read More »Pain points for Manufacturers and gains from PIM
A recent report from Shopify highlighted that worldwide revenue from online fashion retailing is likely to rise from just under $500 billion in 2018 to over $700 billion by 2022. The fashion sector is one of the biggest in online retailing and customers certainly have plenty of choice. Simply having a brief product description with… Read More »Pain points for Fashion Retailers and gains from PIM