GXS Product Information Manager (PIM) Express offers all the necessary building blocks to quickly and efficiently meet your trading partners’ requirements for data synchronisation.

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

• Getting products to market faster—Case studies show a 7-13% reduction in time for sales force to communicate product updates.¹
• Fewer invoice disputes—Suppliers implementing a data synchronisation 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 Synchronisation 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 PIM Express lets you import product information to create a centralised item master file, validate against industry standards and trading partner requirements, and publish via a GDSN certified data pool.

Features

• Catalogue in PIM utilises a flexible database to serve as your single repository for storing and managing all your product item, vendor and location information.
• Compliance Management provides interoperability between data pools, automated enforcement of industry standards and customisation for partner-specific rules.
• Content Management
• Centralised, behind-the-firewall catalogue data repository
• Automated data import
• Product hierarchy management
• Trading partner association
  
  
• Integration and Syndication enables new or changed product information to be approved to synchronise with internal systems such as ERP, warehouse and marketing systems and be syndicated to all GDSN trading partners.
• Contextual User Presentation allows users to administer the catalogue, browse for information, manage workflow tasks and track the status of syndicated messages.