Distribution Companies

Onboarding product data quickly while ensuring that the data is high quality is crucial for successful distribution.

Using Master Data Management, distributors can automate data onboarding processes and enhance data to make it fit for sharing.

Give your suppliers direct access to upload, enrich and approve supplier and product data. Supplier-provided data is automatically matched against existing data in the MDM to prevent duplicates and make sure that your data requirements are met. Outliers and inconsistent information can be flagged for clerical review.

The product data syndication solution, PDX, is a built-in component that connects Stibo Systems MDM seamlessly with online marketplaces, big box retailers and content service providers, including The Home Depot, Walmart, Amazon, 1WorldSync, Nielsen Brandbank and AAFES, to keep your product information accurate, updated and correctly listed where consumers shop.

Retailers use different data formats. Stibo Systems product data syndication solution is built for this challenge, using deep retail integrations and machine learning to automate and simplify the process of providing consistent and high-quality data where it is needed.

• Capture and upload data quickly and easily
• Map and transform it to retailers’ exact needs
• Validate and enrich using real-time feedback
• Correct for compliance, then publish and share
• Configure channels to meet unique needs

The built-in product data syndication solution makes Stibo Systems MDM a superior wholesale distribution software.

Reduce time-consuming customer interactions and product returns. Your customers expect to find all product information online, and they want to compare products so they can find the right product or service.

With MDM as your distribution data management, you can make it easy for your customers to make the right buying decisions. Master data management allows you to centralize product information, shape it into the desired format, match it against customer profiles and manage assortment eligibility for certain locations:

• Flexible data models allow you to manage hundreds of attributes and product variants
• Built-in digital asset management (DAM) lets you add rich content to product records
• A quick and efficient search capability powered by in-memory functionality enhances the customer experience
• Centralized and clean customer data enables you to customize offerings
• Combining location and product data enables you to make data-driven decisions about assortment availability and replenishment
• Data as a Service can make product information and other data available in real-time through microservices integrations (mobile apps, QR codes, displays, kiosks, calculators, etc.)

Providing rich and accurate content about your products across touchpoints enables your customers to make the right choice.

The ability to seamlessly share complete and high-quality data is critical to speed time to market, streamline procurement processes and make it easy for your customers to list your products.

Stibo Systems Master Data Management features integral standard components to support product information management for distribution, including easy exchange of product data, international classifications, data quality maintenance and data transformation.

Built-in support for international classifications, such as GS1, ETIM, ECLASS (Basic and Advanced), UNSPSC, Aces, Autocare and TecDoc facilitates easy data sharing with your business partners.

The integrated classification support ensures you have total ownership of the data transformation process and access to data quality capabilities without third-party software required.

Rapid growth, mergers and acquisitions can cause a heterogenous landscape of applications and data formats. The result is often out-of-sync data and inconsistent experiences at different customer touchpoints. Distributors need trusted information just like retailers and CPG companies to build a trusted brand.

Using Stibo Systems Master Data Management helps you govern your distribution data. Collect data from different ERP systems and data providers and centralize it in a unified format to feed all your systems and channels with accurate and consistent data.

Unified product information management for distribution companies increases business agility because data is always up to date and fit for purpose. You can leverage your master data-enhanced wholesale distribution software to improve analytics, get higher revenue from digital channels and ensure consistency across points-of-sale, catalogs, marketplaces and ecommerce.