Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is North America's number-one specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. Through 900+ retail stores across the United States and in Canada, Best Buy employees connect customers with technology and entertainment products and services that make life easier and more fun.
Best Buy and GXS PDQ
Best Buy knows that the quality of their suppliers' product data is critical to ensuring the success of their Foundation Data Management (FDM) initiative in general and their Global Data Synchronization initiative in particular. Because only product data that is accurate, consistent and complete can support the Best Buy supply chain and meet consumer demand, Best Buy now requires all suppliers that synchronize their data with Best Buy to subscribe to the GXS Product Data Quality (PDQ) service. Experience has shown that developing and implementing a thorough product data quality assurance process takes most suppliers approximately six months; suppliers with larger product assortments will generally benefit from even more advanced planning.
Best Buy Movie & Music suppliers have already begun contracting for the GXS PDQ service and are now actively preparing their data for synchronization. If you are a supplier of movies and/or music to Best Buy and have not yet signed up with GXS, please click here to contact GXS for pricing and registration information.
Suppliers of products in categories other than movies and music are expected to go live with their new item induction process in September 2006 and should begin contracting with GXS PDQ now so as to fully prepare their product data. Click here to contact GXS with questions or register online now.
Best Buy Says
"The true benefits of Global Data Synchronization will not be fully realized without accurate, quality product data ... GXS Product Data Quality (PDQ) services enable us to deliver the level of data quality we need to be successful."
Patricia Vessey, Director E-Business Communication, Best Buy
Best Buy Says Choose GXS as their Product Data Quality (PDQ) Solution
Read the Best Buy case study now (PDF, Requires Adobe Acrobat).
