After purchase of a Product Information Management system, expectations run high. Often people are surprised that there is still a relatively large amount of manual work to be done, such as assigning properties and entering property values.
For wholesale companies it is even more complex and time-consuming because external parties deliver some of the data.

Points of focus

Efficient use of PIM is complicated by:

• Manual entering of data.
• Data delivered by external parties.
• Difference in classification structures.
• Missing properties and property values.

What solutions?

Calago offers various products and services that get structured or unstructured product data PIM-ready automatically. Some examples are:

• Extraction of unstructured formats, such as PDF, MS Word or websites.
• Extraction of product properties from descriptions and placing these in separate fields.
• Standardization of property values: synonyms, various languages, convert abbreviations to one value.
• The (customer-specific) multi-classification of products.
• The creation of (several) standard descriptions.

Standard classifications like etim, e-class, EZ-base and profi-class can be expanded with extra fields and classifications to be able to keep your own vision of management for offering product data.

Our unique solutions also guarantee an assortment of data systems that serve as strong USP of your company, that is also user-friendly for customers. In addition, with supplier data integration, we offer a solution to quickly and efficiently create order in data delivered by suppliers.

Available Calago solutions

• Data Classification
• Data Enrichment
• Supplier Data Integration

Result

• Optimum use of PIM.
• Drastically lower costs for building up greater assortments.
• Consistent information.
• Searchable (product) properties.
• (Customer-specific) multi-classification.
• Expandable standard classifications.