MDM PIM: Product Information Management: E-commerce Strategies

Channel complexity affect master data mangement now and beyond. Information management has released a new, informative article: Please read 10 Key Trends in MDM here.

Digital Revolution Screams for Digital Asset Management tools.

Electrical distributors and data quality: chicken-and-egg or Little Red Hen? 

Balancing Online & Print Catalogs

The challenge of moving distributor catalogs and sales online

Here is an excerpt from an informative article in the current issue of Modern Distribution Management about distributors’ efforts to bring their catalogs online:

good article about silos of data in enterprises

Print catalogs: Still Vital in a Digital World.  Spring is a season of new life and renewal.  So it’s a good time to re-examine the myth that “print catalogs are dead,” killed off by e-commerce, m-commerce, and other digital channels. The truth is that catalogs are still a vital, vibrant, “human-scale” marketing medium that offers plenty of value to both consumers and business customers: 

In a recent analyst insight published on SupplyChainBrain.com, “there are three important areas in which retailers can improve their supply chains and reach future success as consumer confidence returns”: reducing costs, reducing inventories, and reviewing and realigning logistics networks.  A master data management platform can help achieve all three of these goals:

supplier portals or vendor portals enhance vendor relations, streamline two way data exchange and optimize product data.

Combining Product information management with multi channel publishing helps enterprises slash costs, improve quality and frequency of marketing materials.