Automation for Information Supply Chains
Information Supply Chains are the data equivalent of the physical supply chains that move products from manufacturer to supplier. Information Supply Chains carry information between systems, users and organizations to enable efficient e-commerce, business operations, product design, strategic sourcing, inventory management, businesses intelligence, data governance and customer service.
Managing and optimizing the data flowing through your Information Supply Chains is the life-blood of your company’s success. If your data is unreliable compared to your competitors, you lose.
Unfortunately getting the data ‘right’ and keeping it that way is not easy as:
- There are no universal standards for format, let alone content.
- Different systems and users need the same information but in completely different ways.
- Product data frequently comes from external sources making standardization even tougher to implement .
- Each product category has different schemas, validations, vocabulary, business rules, etc.
In addition, each company has many Information Supply Chains that link their various internal systems, and one of the most complicating factors with product data is that it is so frequently shared externally — between different companies in the overall information supply chain that spans suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers.
Silver Creek Systems provides automated data mastering to handle your product data issues throughout your entire Information Supply Chain including:
