More and more companies have digital catalogues to support purchasing and sales processes. Maintenance of the data is expensive and time-consuming, particularly because of the way product data is delivered. Daily practice shows that the creation of an item costs an average of 5 euros, while for the maintenance a cost of between 1 and 2 euros can be expected.

Points of focus

When importing and processing supplier data, the following factors cause problems:

• Structure, language, terminology, descriptions and completeness vary per supplier.
• Data is only made available in unstructured format (PDF, MS Word, Websites).
• Terminology and descriptions do not match the wishes of buyers, sellers, logistics, etc.
• Properties are not delivered or delivered incomplete.
• Property denominations and values are not uniform.
• Items are classified incorrectly.

What solutions?

With an innovative data delivery process, Calago ensures that your catalogues are always complete and properly classified. Properties can be taken from descriptions and offered separately; prices and assortments are current. The desired data quality and information function is realized by integration based on content, besides the usual mapping of fields.

The features of the solutions that Calago offers are:

• Web-based content delivery.
• Extraction and standardization of properties.
• Creation of standard descriptions.
• Calculation of purchase and selling prices.
• Automatic classification.
• Workflow-directed price and assortment validation.

Available Calago solutions

• Supplier Data Integration

Result

• Seamless integration of supplier.
• Independence from the quality of the supplier data.
• Links ERP, PIM, CRM etc.
• Quick assortment updating.
• Always complete catalogues.
• Property fields uniform and filled.
• Always current prices and assortments.
• Transparent purchase information.
• Improved search functions.