OVERVIEW
The National Product Catalogue (NPC) enables manufacturers and suppliers across Australia and New Zealand to exchange standardized product and pricing information with their trading partners using GS1 standards. Organizations publishing to the NPC must ensure their product information complies with NPC-specific attributes, code lists, validation rules, and publication requirements to support accurate and efficient product data synchronization.
Innovit NPC Connector simplifies the management, validation, and publication of product and pricing information to the National Product Catalogue. By leveraging a purpose-built solution for NPC data synchronization, organizations can improve product data quality, streamline governance, reduce manual effort, and efficiently deliver trusted product information to trading partners throughout Australia and New Zealand.
INNOVIT NPC CONNECTOR
Innovit NPC Connector provides a purpose-built solution for manufacturers and suppliers to publish standardized product and pricing information to the National Product Catalogue. The solution comes pre-configured with NPC-specific attributes, code lists, and data validation rules, ensuring every item and price record meets NPC and industry compliance requirements before publication. By automating data preparation, validation, and publication, Innovit’s NPC Connector eliminates manual rework and reduces the risk of data rejection or delay during the synchronization process.
The NPC Connector also automates the publication of item and price data in the specific GS1 XML format and messaging protocol required by the NPC, ensuring seamless data flow to your trading partners. Every message exchange with the NPC including data upload, publication and trading partner confirmations are logged in a message log available for business users. This ensures complete visibility, auditability, and traceability of an organization’s product data synchronization history. With Innovit’s NPC Connector, suppliers and brand owners can achieve faster time-to-market, improved data quality, and simplified NPC compliance for efficient product data synchronization.
BENEFITS
Publish Trusted Item and Price Data
Manage, validate, and publish standardized product and pricing information to the National Product Catalogue through a single, purpose-built solution.
Improve product data quality and consistency
Leverage built-in NPC data validation rules, standardized data models, and data quality controls to ensure complete, consistent, and publication-ready product and pricing information.
Strengthen data governance and visibility
Monitor product and pricing data changes, publication activity, and synchronization status through comprehensive dashboards, audit trails, and complete message exchange history.
Reduce operational and IT cost
Replace manual publication processes and custom integrations with a purpose-built NPC Connector that simplifies ongoing administration, reduces operational complexity, and lowers the total cost of ownership.
Capability Highlights
Explore the core capabilities that enable efficient, scalable, and consistent product data syndication via the NPC.
| Category | Features |
|---|---|
| Data Import | Easily onboard item and price data from your ERP, PLM, PIM/MDM and other source applications |
| Data Maintenance | Out-of-the-box item and price attributes, code lists and data validation rules for NPC Streamlined item, price and pack hierarchy management Simplified data maintenance with configurable web forms and native bulk edit capability |
| Data Governance | Out-of-the-box NPC data validation rules for item and price data Audit trail and complete version history of data changes Easy-to-configure approval gates and workflows Complete approval history Granular role-based security Data quality dashboard to track data validation and synchronization status via the NPC |
| Data Publication | Native M2M connectivity to NPC Support for required GS1 XML format Message log for full message exchange history with NPC |
“Innovit NPC Connector streamlines product and pricing data syndication via the National Product Catalogue.”
Data Flow Models for NPC Data Syndication
With Innovit NPC Connector, customers can leverage pre-packaged and custom data flow models to support their internal business processes for aggregating, maintaining, validating and publishing their item and price data via the NPC. The pre-packaged data flow models come in 2-Stage and 3-Stage variations, while also providing a Passthrough option for organizations who do not have users maintaining data in Innovit’s application.
2-Stage Data Flow Model
This model has two distinct stages: maintenance and publication. The maintenance stage comes pre-packaged with all the attributes, code lists and data validation rules that customers need to manage, validate and synchronize their product data via the NPC. Once the data is validated and ready for publication, it is released to the publication stage where users can upload and publish their clean and validated product data to their trading partners.
Best For:
Organizations with no upstream systems or data aggregation needs, where users either create records directly in Innovit’s application or import product data in the required NPC format.
3-Stage Data Flow Model
This model has three distinct stages: aggregation, maintenance, and publication. The aggregation stage allows users to consolidate and cleanse raw product data from multiple source systems to create a complete source product record. The data is then converted into the required NPC format in the maintenance stage and follows the standard data validation and publication process as the 2-stage model.
Best For:
Organizations with multiple source systems that need to aggregate, cleanse, and normalize product data before converting it into the NPC format for validation and publication.
Passthrough Data Flow Model
This model supports a fully automated flow where product data is maintained upstream and only passes through Innovit’s solution for data validation and publication. Product data is automatically imported, mapped and validated against NPC rules, and published without manual intervention. Data validation and synchronization reports are sent back to the source system, where any corrections are made and re-imported.
Best For:
Organizations with upstream systems where users manage all product data and require a fully automated data validation and publication process.
User Configurable Workflow Model
This model leverages Innovit’s Collabri workflow engine to enable fully configurable, advanced workflow orchestration. Users can design custom data flows with multiple stages, dynamic routing, and role-based tasks using a visual interface. It supports complex approval processes, conditional logic, escalation policies and automated task management to handle sophisticated data management and governance requirements.
Best For:
Organizations with advanced governance, approval, or regulatory review processes requiring configurable workflow orchestration.
Hosting
Different hosting options are available for customers.
Multi-Tenanted
Public Cloud
Shared environment with shared server
Single-Tenanted
Hybrid Cloud
Dedicated environment with dedicated server
Single-Tenanted
Private Cloud
Dedicated environment with dedicated server
