MDM PIM: Product Information Management: E-commerce Strategies

Food Service Product Excellence: The Road Map

In reviews of problems facing food service distributors, no central control stands tallest. The first step down the MDM for product information management highway aligns product data by instilling three major functions:

1. Build a Central Depository for product data collection. Structured with taxonomies and attributes, each assigned validatation rules.
2. Workflow and process integration to collect data from other systems, validate, and put workflow in to synchronize valid product information into central database and monitor edits and synchronization across all systems.
3. Create a data profile manager that takes the validated data and puts into views, sub-repositories, out put sets and more.  

Often, lack of standardized attribute definitions is the first hurdle to golden product information. A data model is built to solve this. PIM has built in validation rules and if the industry has standard taxonomies, they can be used. To read more about Food Service Success >>>