Consumer Packaged Goods, or CPG, yield a steady and reliable revenue. Whether the economy is thriving or is limping through hard times, the demand for these products rarely dwindles. Because CPG's make up everyday items such as food, beverages, or...
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Analyzing the Global Data Synchronization Network (or GDSN)
Inconsistencies in data and inefficiencies in the supply chain can be huge problems for any company. The costs of these errors can build up to a point of disaster. It's important to have safeguards and quality technology to prevent such issues....
How to Find the Best PIM Software of 2018 and Beyond
In 2017, e-commerce sales around the world amounted to over two trillion dollars. An essential aspect of sustaining those figures is the effective management of your data. Billions are lost each year as a result of information inefficiencies. This...
10 Surprising Benefits of Catalog Management for Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers
The U.S. automotive aftermarket is a huge industry. It may even exceed one trillion dollars by 2022. If you want to be part of this booming industry, you'd better keep your hat on! Whether you're new to the aftermarket or not, keeping your products...
The Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Data Management Strategy
Nearly 75 percent of leaders say data-driven efforts have helped them boost their customer engagement. In today's digital age, data is being generated quite literally at the speed of light. These days, information moves as fast as the electrons...
9 Effective Ways to Improve Data Security
In 2017, 179 million records were exposed through data breaches. That's the highest recorded number of data security breaches to date. Data breaches have a lasting effect on your business. In fact, 20% of businesses that experienced a ransomware...
10 Things You Need to Know About the Data Management Process
Effective data management keeps your business running like a well-oiled machine. Do you have a data management system in place? If you don't, it's time you did. But where do you start? First, you need to understand some basic things about the data...
How Master Data Management Applies to Your Business
Across the country, bad data is an epidemic that costs companies nearly $3 billion a year in lost revenue or missed opportunities. If you're not managing your data appropriately, you're going to drop some leads, miss some payments, or even...
The Most Common Mistakes in NPI Process and How to Avoid
New Product Introduction (NPI) is a complicated and highly collaborative process. And that means there's a lot of room for error. These errors are very expensive and can slow down the whole NPI process. Worst of all, they may go undetected until...
9 Practical Tips to Help You Comply with 21 CFR Part 11
Businesses and organizations that use electronic record keeping might find they take up less space than paper, but they come with their own difficulties. Due to the FDA regulations on electronic data management, it can seem like a lot of hassle for...
Product Information Management: PIM Solutions for Ecommerce Businesses
Today's business world is more complicated than it's ever been. Digital businesses have more moving parts than a BMW's V6. It leaves us feeling overwhelmed as we can see from the fact that 72% of small business owners report feeling overwhelmed...
Omni Channel Solutions: Why PIM Is Vital for Omni Channel Commerce
Do you know how to use omni channel solutions to succeed in the e-commerce world? If omni channel sounds like a big challenge to you, you're not alone. However, this can become a valuable part of offering a top customer experience and winning the...
MDM Done Right: 9 Master Data Management Best Practices
Understanding the many ways data can help your business grow is not the same as knowing how to gather and store data correctly. Lots of decision makers often leave the latter to other people. Instead of managing data themselves, they outsource to...
MDM and PIM for Consumer Product Goods: What You Need to Know
MDM and PIM for Consumer Product Goods: What You Need to Know
Do you want to take your consumer product goods business to the next level? Check out this guide to learn how MDM and PIM can help.
MDM Implementation Styles: An Overview
Not sure what the best strategy for master data management implementation is for your business? Check out this guide to learn more about MDM implementation styles.
IT Solutions for Healthcare: What You Need to Know about MDM and PIM
Secure Data Management: 4 Essential Steps Healthcare, much like other industries, tends to borrow technology from the business world and adapt it to meet their needs. This was the case with PIM in the late 90's. Once MDM evolved, the healthcare...
5 Features of An Effective Master Data Management Tool
Master Data Management helps optimize business performance, keep client data secure, maximize sales and increase brand awareness. Most offer specific features for certain industries, business sizes, and budgets. Here's what we think are key things...
How a Product Information Management System Improves The Customer Experience
Your company's success is based on your brand, and your brand is connected to the customer experience. But what if your customers are being turned off by bad experiences? You can turn things around with a product information management system. This...
Trends in Product Information Management – What’s Next?
Did you know that 74 percent of consumers want accurate and complete product information before they make a purchase, especially when it comes to packaged foods? Consumers want and need to know what they are buying and complete product data is the...
Product Information Management – 8 Reasons Why Your Business Needs It
Product Information Management (PIM) - The Basics A Product Information Management solution is an organized answer to the chaos of infinite data that challenge many suppliers and manufacturers. A trusted and reliable PIM solution keeps all the...
GDSN Data Pool – Your #101 Guide
GDSN Data Pool Overview A GDSN network uses interconnected data pools that maintains data quality as information is shared with trading partners. The GDSN protocols for data sharing was developed by GS1, or Global Standards. These standards are...
5 Benefits of Automation and How PIM Solutions Can Help
Ah yes, the benefits of automation...having technology do things for you so you don't have to. This is particularly true of automating product information management (PIM). As business owners, manufacturers, and digital marketers, you need your...
5 Tips for Improving Data Quality and Consistency
Have you been thinking about improving data quality? There's no question about it: data quality matters. Your data doesn't just exist for the sake of existing: it's crucial for the success of your organization. The data can help put you above the...
MDM – A Beginner’s Guide
With more consumers going online to shop, companies are turning to data for guidance. Data about customers, market trends, and product performance are vital to companies. But companies are relying on spreadsheets and human labor to analyze their...
5 Data Management Best Practices You Should Know
If you're in the business of marketing, you've probably got a lot on your mind each day when you get to work. There's always something to be doing. But in the jumble of daily to-dos, don't forget the importance of data management. No matter the...
A Guide to Business Process Optimization With Workflow Management
Does your business need process optimization? You might think the answer is "no." However, nearly every business can benefit from business process optimization. Workflow management can help streamline your processes, putting you above the...
UDI Compliance: The Key Dates
In 2013 the Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule setting out a system for Unique Device Identifiers, or UDIs, that should be applied to medical devices. These UDIs must be in both plain text and a format that can be read by a machine,...
The Benefits of the GDSN
There are 195 countries (independent states) in the world. The vast number of different states makes international trade a complex business. But the trading of global data between all of those countries is even more complex. Without a standardized...
Democratizing Master Data Management Solutions
Master Data Management solutions were always traditionally seen as being something for big business, beyond the reach of the little guy. But developments have changed things. Learn more about the continuing democratization of MDM. As time goes on...
5 Benefits of Good Product Information Management
This year, loads more companies are making efforts to improve their data integration and management systems. They understand effective product information management (PIM) is key to business success. Getting it right brings a whole host of benefits...
The Importance of Healthcare Data Management
Healthcare data management is an essential part of working in the industry. You're not only legally obligated to manage patient healthcare. Patients' health outcomes often depend on your ability translate, store, and transmit records properly....
Cloud MDM: 5 Key Benefits
According to Forbes, cloud computing is projected to increase from $67 billion in 2015 to $162 billion in 2020. Cloud MDM (master data management) is not new to businesses anymore. People are using the cloud for data. It helps businesses stay...
5 Features Every Workflow Management System Should Have
When it comes to running a successful business, productivity and efficiency are key in driving profits and staying afloat. For employers, this task is harder now than ever. There are new and more immersive workplace distractions. Facebook use alone...
How Master Data Management Can Save You Time and Money
Master Data Management has traditionally been seen as an expensive but necessary evil. But over the past few years, the development of Master Data Management strategy has meant it has become more affordable and more able to save your business time...
“Drug, Food Sales Will Power Amazon’s Growth” – Amazon Dominance and What It Means for Small to Mid-Sized Suppliers
Amazon captured 5.6 percent of total U.S. retail market share in 2017, but according to recent reports, its retail market share will reach 9.6 percent by 2020. "The shift to online grocery is being driven by consumers' increasing comfort with...
Let’s Talk UDI (and a Webinar!)
Unique device identification (UDI) for medical devices is getting more visibility that ever. And with upcoming compliance deadlines around the corner, more healthcare manufacturers are asking for clarity - “what is it?” and “how do I prepare?” ...
Solving Data Silo Headaches with MDM and PIM
Whether you’re a company of 500 or 5000, we’ll wager that you’ve experienced the challenges of work related silos and their inevitable issues on the company’s people and processes. Leaders are focused on their specific agendas, various groups form...
Millennial Madness & The Omni Channel Experience: Key Insights
Here’s some millennial math. The millennial generation - children born between 1982 and 2002 – are now some 81 million children who have taken over K-12, entered college and the workforce. Millennials have surpassed baby boomers as the largest...
The Three C’s of The Customer Experience
“I want it all and I would like it delivered.” – Bette Midler In today’s e-commerce world, that pretty much sums up the customer expectation. At least part of it. According to Forrester, we’re five years into the 'Age of the Customer' in which...
Demystifying MDM – 3 Myths to Ditch Right Now
Data Management. Data Governance. Data Intelligence. Data Warehousing. Data Mining. Big Data. Little Data. Master Data. Product Data. No doubt you’ve read the terms, taglines and acronyms surrounding ‘Data.’ It’s confusing, conflicting...
UDI: Generating Value Beyond Compliance
Getting to Good Data in the GUDID* The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation mandates that UDI data for Class I medical devices to be submitted with an impending deadline of September 24, 2018. This has made medical device...
Preview to UK healthcare conference April 2016
Bang Chau: Answering the “how” question as GS1 standards are adopted across the NHS No one doubts that using GS1 data standards on pharmaceuticals and medical devices can lead to improved patient safety and increased supply chain efficiency across...
How the GS1 standards are adopted across the world!
For brand manufacturers and suppliers, to achieve business efficiencies, they need to ensure that their products align with GS1 standards, and ensure product data is synchronised with trading partners via GDSN data pools such as the National...
The Adoption of UDI Globally; What does this mean for you?
UDI (Unique Device Identification) was legislated by the FDA on 24 September 2013. Device manufacturers were warned that failure to comply with UDI submission requirements would prevent them from selling products in the United States. It’s been...
GS1 Global Data Synchronisation Network Large Maintenance Release
As a company, we didn’t do business with Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs). Our strategy was to have a direct relationship with the customer. However, with UDI data, that changed.