Data Services for Distributors
Distributors take product information from many external sources and must normalize it into a single ‘source of truth’ item master. Given the number of sources and variety of products, this process represents significant effort that is rarely well automated. Yet, a distributor’s item master is the core reference for pricing, inventory, merchandizing, product search, and customer service. Having a reference source that is complete, consistent and correct is critically important to every facet of a distributor.
Silver Creek Systems can build Data Services to enhance:
- Quote Matching - standardize incoming customer requests for efficient matching against the item master for rapid and complete fulfillment of customer quotes and orders.
- Item Master Cleansing & Enrichment - standardize and enrich the item master file so stocked or franchised items can be easily found by both customers and employees.
- Inventory Consolidation - standardize product information and identify common items to ensure that the entire inventory is searchable, available for sale, and inventory is not needlessly duplicated.
- Item Substitution & Alternates - extract and standardize functional attributes from product information to offer functional equivalents in place of out-of-stock items.
- Product Data Scorecards - monitor and enforce content standards for incoming data to highlight gaps and errors on a record-by-record basis to create data quality scorecards on a source-by-source basis.
- PIM (Product Information Management) - automate the standardization, classification and governance of incoming product data to avoid the 'garbage-in, garbage-out' trap, while improving the ROI of the PIM implementation.
- Product Data Translation - automate the translation of product information to effectively serve global and specialized markets.
