Overview

Product Information management is a tool to centralize information about products and serve consistent and up-to date product information to multiple distribution channels.

PIM system allows the User to:

1. Add/update categories, subcategories, and their contents,

2. Add/update various types of products and their content data on the fly.

3. Add/update cross/up sell products data.

4. Manage website by adding or removing the products/categories on the seasonal or promotional basis.

Business Purpose

Keeping the product information updated is a real life challenge for business owners and retailers. The product range is getting varied each day as per the customer’s choice. Each product is different from the others and has a varied range of features and interactive content which are tough to manage.

 Thus, Business owners and retailers need a comprehensive solution that covers the basic aspects of cleansing product data, organizing product data, processing the product information and making it available on request.

PIM emerges as a great solution to meet all these requirements:

1. Helps in executing a consistent competitive pricing strategy across the product line.

2. Helps in improving the margins.

3. Helps in maintaining detailed product catalogs and create category using Category builder.

4. Helps in classification and alignment of product hierarchies.

5. Helps in maintaining huge product information in a simple and efficient manner.

6. Secure enough to provide the Users with sufficient privileges to edit information relevant to their responsibilities.

Activity Diagrams

Product Store

A product store has all the information needed to sell products. It is composed of a series of catalogs, which are composed of product categories and products. Each store can have its own shipping, fulfillment, notification, promotions, payment processing, and tax calculation policies. A product store can point to several different websites, allowing the same products to be sold on multiple hosted sites or domains.

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Catalog

A product catalog is used to group many product categories together and forms an intermediate step in the organization between products, categories, and stores. The product catalog can be used to define a common look and feel for all categories in this catalog and specify the way different categories will behave. For example, it is very useful for stores which sell products from different manufacturer or completely different product types that require differing presentations to the customer.

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Category

The Merchandising Manager creates or provides access to a variety of information about categories. This offers search tools to view, edit or associate the categories with Products.

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Product

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