How does OnePIM work?
We've designed OnePIM to:
Align product information from different sources against your master catalogue.
OnePIM does that continuously 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
Here's what happens in each stage.
1. Align
This is the stage where OnePIM saves you the most money. Automating alignment processes and eliminating repetitive manual tasks and costly errors will also improve data quality.
OnePIM ...
Collect information
Processes it
Validates it
Maps it against your master records
Collect
We have many options for collecting data from all your sources. We can:
Use our ready-made connectors to many enterprise ERP and data platforms
Integrate any system through our REST API (your technical team can do this by themselves, or we can help)
Import digital assets from your Digital Asset Management systems or online folders
Schedule collecting files from SFTP, Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel
Manually create and manage products (very handy for small local suppliers who only want to manage their Granny Smiths produce)
Manually import files (CSV, Excel, etc.)
The initial integrations can be done by your or your suppliers' technical teams, or we can do that on your behalf.
Process
After collection, OnePIM converts the various file and data formats into a unified structure.
Validate
OnePIM then validates whether the information is complete, valid, and without duplicates and if there are any issues, highlights these so your or your suppliers' teams can fix them. Finally, it imports the information into a master product catalogue.
You can define which information from which source OnePIM should import automatically and which you want to validate first. For example, you might want to process updates from a trusted supplier automatically but manually approve all information from a new supplier. Or even more granularly, you can decide to automatically authorise all updates from an authorised supplier except nutritional values or drug content, which you'd always want to approve manually.
2. Enrich
This is the stage where OnePIM helps you to make your product information accurate, rich and engaging and, as a result, increase your sales conversion rates.
OnePIM ...
Automatically updates existing products with new information
Automatically maps new products to existing data structures and, where possible, reuses information and assets already available in the master catalogue
Automatically enriches products with information from 3rd parties (e.g. GDSN/GS1, GPC, FoodData Central, EFSA, etc.)
Translates product information using AI (with or without manual intervention and approval)
Autogenerates product titles and descriptions or SEO meta information using AI (with or without manual intervention and approval)
Enables your team to fill in any missing information manually
Create or improve product titles and descriptions, ad multimedia files, technical data or attachments to products and categories, and define which information is required for each sales channel, product catalogue, market or language
Manage attribute sets for navigation and filtering, combine attribute values into meaningful filters (for example, grouping colour variations to core colours), define value ranges for filters and other similar tasks that would make your product catalogues more useful and valuable to your end customers.
Quickly create unique product catalogues for different sales channels, campaigns or partners
The built-in workflow and permission systems allow your teams and suppliers to collaborate seamlessly but, based on their roles, have different permissions to view, create and manage information.
Approve
You can also easily manage the lifecycle of your products by defining approval gates based on roles.
For example, your product team could approve new products from a supplier and enrich them, but only a category manager could approve them for publishing. Your eCommerce manager could manage information within their eCommerce catalogue and approve its publishing, but not within a master or a store catalogue.
OnePIM records each change, action and approval and stores it in an audit log.
3. Publish
This is where OnePIM helps you to extend your reach and make your B2C or B2B customers happy.
You can automatically publish different product catalogues to channels, such as ...
Your eCommerce websites
Point of Sale applications
Campaign or product-launch microsites
Brand microsites
Print catalogues
Mobile applications
Marketing automation platforms
Marketplaces
Affiliate and shopping-comparison websites
Marketing and social media platforms. and more
OnePIM enables you to do that through ...
Real-time data syndication
Preconfigured batch exports
Real-time data syndication
This allows internal and external systems to programmatically access, search, filter, and download product information and assets in real-time.
It is suitable for powering your eCommerce platforms, campaign microsites, Points of Sale, mobile applications, and similar dynamic systems that rely on real-time updates.
Preconfigured batch exports
This allows exporting catalogues as "flat" files in various formats (Excel, CSV, XML, HTML) when needed or automatically creating them at scheduled intervals and exporting to shared online file repositories.
This is suitable for print catalogues, product-launch microsites, data analysis, and similar uses where one-off catalogue exports are more appropriate or easier to deal with.
Depending on your strategy and maturity, you can start with the latter and grow into the former. For example, testing a new market or launching a new product line on pre-order through a microsite would be easier to accomplish through one-off export and only later migrated to an eCommerce platform.
