As part of a complete master data management (MDM) program or as a focused product data initiative, GXS Product Information Manager-Supplier Edition creates a single authoritative source for product information across your internal systems. Your extended enterprise benefits from consistent, accurate, and easy-to-access product information, providing you with a new integrated approach to electronic collaboration

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 a master data management tool like PIM-Supplier Edition can expect to achieve a 5-10% reduction in time spent resolving invoice errors.¹
• Transportation and logistics cost savings—Suppliers can capture 2 to 8 percent in annual inbound and outbound transportation cost savings as a result of improving the accuracy of weights and measurements resulting in increased speed to move products.¹
• High return on investment—Average 25% savings from more robust product information management registered across 18 business functions with an annual average of 2500 person-days saved.²

¹Accenture, Synchronization—The Next Generation of Business Partnering: How Leading Companies are Delivering Actual Results.
²The 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 back-office systems, manages it through work-flow and validations, and publishes it to your trading partners in the format they want.

Features

• Data Repository PIM utilizes a flexible database to serve as your single repository for storing and managing your entire product item, trading partner and location information. PIM-Supplier Edition is your master data management tool for product data.
• Configurable Workflow allows you to graphically model business workflows across departments to efficiently create new items, make changes to existing items, and apply complex validations to assure accurate information.
• 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.
• Ownership and Accountability are provided within PIM—Supplier Edition via strong role and field-based security. PIM assures only those allowed to view and/or modify data can do so and all actions are tracked to support security and reporting needs.