GXS Product Information Manager, Supplier Edition creates a single authoritative source for item information across your internal systems. Your extended enterprise benefits from consistent, accurate and easy-to-access product information.

Independent case studies and industry surveys offer proof that product information management offers numerous operational efficiencies and competitive advantages for suppliers:

• Get products to market faster—Case studies show a 7-13% reduction in the time it takes the sales force to communicate product updates.¹
• Fewer invoice disputes—Suppliers implementing a data synchronization solution driven by PIM can expect to achieve a 5-10% reduction in time spent resolving invoice errors.¹
• Fewer stock-outs—Case studies show a 3-5% reduction in stock-outs.¹
• High return on investment—Average 25% savings from PIM registered across 18 business functions with an annual average of 2500 person-days saved.²

¹ A.T. Kearney, Action Plan to Accelerate Trading Partner Electronic Collaboration, Data Synchronization Proof of Concept: Case Studies from Leading Manufacturers and Retailers.
² The Yankee Group, The Cost of Waiting: Building the ROI Case to Implement Product Information Management Now, January 2005

Overview
GXS Product Information Manager, Supplier Edition aggregates information from all of your backend systems, manages it through work-flow and validations, and publishes it to your trading partners in the format they want.

Features

• Data Repository in PIM utilizes a flexible database to serve as your single repository for storing and managing all your product item, trading partner and location information.
• Configurable Workflow allows you to graphically model business workflows across departments to efficiently create new items and make changes to existing items.
• Collaboration among trading partners allows a supplier to “build” a new product in their PIM system and when ready, submit it directly to the retailer’s new product introduction process.
• Compliance Management provides interoperability between data pools, automated enforcement of industry standards and customization for partner-specific rules.
• Content Management
  • Centralized, behind-the-firewall catalog data repository
  • Automated item cross-referencing and reconciliation
  • Product hierarchy management
  • Category association
    
    
• Integration and Syndication enables new or changed product information to be approved and synchronized with internal systems such as ERP, warehouse and marketing systems, and syndicated to all sales channels.
• Contextual User Presentation allows users to administer the catalog, browse for information, manage workflow tasks and track the status of syndicated messages.