Product Master Data Management

Product master data management enables you to efficiently collect, collate and onboard accurate, up-to-date information from a broad range of internal and external sources, including manufacturers, brand owners and content service providers.

Options include an integrated import manager that enables enhanced onboarding through Smartsheets, supplier item Web UI and GDSN subscriptions. These tools make it easier to ingest data, ensuring it’s available for effective use within business processes.

A rigid product master data policy demands all data touchpoints be synchronized with the system of record. Product MDM can serve as the central repository for this data, as well as the source of information and content to be sent to downstream systems and applications. Stibo Systems’ open platform supports a growing list of inbound and outbound integrations, including tools to assign and manage unique global identifiers to attributes across the enterprise.

Integrations include MongoDB, Amazon SQS, SAP Material Master Connector, Hybris, and Ariba CIF/cXML, along with outbound data integration using traditional ETL techniques.

Organizations implementing Product MDM with other apps will find this combination, along with our existing integration suite (Oracle AQ/JMS/IBM Websphere/REST/JSON), offers a wide variety of options to quickly realize business objectives.

Product MDM leverages data modeling, roles, workflows, business rules and controls to efficiently guide and govern how data is used, managed and shared across the business ecosystem.

The solution features machine learning-based auto-classification, as well as powerful mapping tools to associate products with multiple classification structures, domains, entities and assets. These provide univocal terms of reference to support superior decision making and business results.

With Product MDM, users can implement and enforce policies from the start unlike many traditional PIM solutions, which often lack the ability to create golden records or match and link products. The ability to do so ensures stability and consistency across all touchpoints.

In addition to standard attributes, classifications and references, Product MDM offers additional modeling and governance features supporting the delivery of trusted data to meet specific industry needs. These include rule-based product classification, supply chain packaging and hierarchy management, a data catalog connector and fast-start prescriptive support for vertical markets.

The solution ensures data is accurate and fit for purpose by leveraging a range of tools for maintaining and enriching content. This includes enhanced error handling/data validation features that flag errors between sessions, accuracy, completeness and sufficiency metrics, and configurable faceted search.

Product MDM also includes integrated DAM, enabling the organization, storage and retrieval of constantly growing volumes and varieties of unstructured content, including images, audio, video, animations and other digital assets.

With the solution, you can protect asset ownership, integrity and copyrights by previewing watermarks before applying them to content. It also includes features to simplify image/content management, including an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) adapter.

Product master data management provides:

• Image meta-tagging – AI/machine learning automatically classifies and enriches assets with metadata via the Google Cloud Vision API. This saves time manually tagging images to enable search, matching and linking.
• Image deduplication – AI/machine learning identifies and removes duplicate images to maintain library efficiency, speed image selection and performance, and reduce storage requirements.

The solution’s proven importing and exporting approach conforms to leading industry standards, ensuring trading partners adhere to the same guidelines. This includes performance optimization for GDSN, for onboarding and publishing GS1 formatted data, enhanced support for the AutoCare and TecDoc automotive standards, and continuous updates to the BMEcat, ECLASS, ETIM and UNSPSC classification systems.

Additionally, Stibo Systems PDX Syndication interoperates seamlessly with Stibo Systems Product MDM solution, enabling manufacturers to deliver consistent, high-quality product information and content formatted to meet retailers’ unique data standards or channel requirements.

PDX Syndication’s seamless integrations and optimized workflows allow data standards and requirements to be automatically managed and updated, making it easy to meet evolving data requirements.