Product Information Management

Product Information Management (PIM)

About

Elevate Your Product Data To Optimize Your Customer Experience.

PIM is more than just a system. Managing product information involves collecting, creating, enriching, validating, and distributing high-quality data.

Our PIM framework helps organizations implement efficient processes, maintainable data structures and a fit-for-purpose PIM system. It also supports building the right organizational setup to ensure an efficient data operation and deliver high quality data as a prerequisite for an exceptional customer experience.

Approach

Realizing Robust And Reliable Product Data.

As leader in our domain, we support national and international manufacturers, wholesalers/distributors and retailers by sharing our “best practices” gathered through projects with 100+ customers.

Strategy development

Our experienced PIM consultants act as trusted advisors in providing strategic guidance. We support customers in translating a generic digital strategy into a concrete PIM-strategy plan.

Change readiness assessment

Our unique assessment method provides insights in your key bottlenecks and opportunities. The fit-gap analysis provides valuable input for defining a PIM business case, as well as your improvement plan.

Outlining a fit-for-purpose solution

Our hands-on, vendor-agnostic PIM consultants can help define requirements, to-be processes and data structures. They select fit-for-purpose systems using a unique, proven RfP approach used by 50+ clients.

Project initiation

A successful PIM implementation requires a holistic approach that balances to-be processes, data models and standards, data cleansing and migration, as well as organizational and governance setup.

Execution and evaluation

Our business-focused PIM implementation method is based on our extensive set of best practices, which is appreciated by many of our customers, from business processes to system configuration.

Continuous improvement

The initial MVP PIM-implementation is just the start of realizing your business case. We team up with clients for support, increase data quality and innovate the processes, system and data structures.

Strategy development

Our experienced PIM consultants act as trusted advisors in providing strategic guidance. We support customers in translating a generic digital strategy into a concrete PIM-strategy plan.

Change readiness assessment

Outlining a fit-for-purpose solution

Project initiation

A successful PIM implementation requires a holistic approach that balances to-be processes, data models and standards, data cleansing and migration, as well as organizational and governance setup.

Execution and evaluation

Our business-focused PIM implementation method is based on our extensive set of best practices, which is appreciated by many of our customers, from business processes to system configuration.

Continuous improvement

Services

Services That Drive Customer Success.

Our unique and extensive set of PIM services, developed and implemented for more than 15 years and used by 100+ clients:

PIM Assessment

Our PIM Assessment enables you to create a well-defined and business-focused improvement plan and roadmap to address your product data challenges.

Selection of PIM system (RfP)

Our fast-track approach includes a checklist with over 400 predefined requirements that will be tailored to your needs in just 4 half-day workshops, a prefilled RfP template, score cards and many other tools.

Continuous Improvement

More and more customers realize that partnering with Squadra enables them to drive real value out of their data, while teaming up in continuously optimizing their PIM solution.

Data Remediation

Step by step, we can improve your data using our expertise and capabilities, which vary from DQ assessments to data structure improvements and from DQ dashboarding up AI-based enrichment.

Training “PIM in a day”

Do you want a a better understanding of PIM, the data it stores, type of available systems and product data standards like GS1 and ETIM? Join a PIM-in-a-day training to get a deeper understanding of PIM and it’s value for your organization.

PIM Assessment

Our PIM Assessment enables you to create a well-defined and business-focused improvement plan and roadmap to address your product data challenges.

Selection of PIM system (RfP)

Continuous Improvement

More and more customers realize that partnering with Squadra enables them to drive real value out of their data, while teaming up in continuously optimizing their PIM solution.

Data Remediation

Step by step, we can improve your data using our expertise and capabilities, which vary from DQ assessments to data structure improvements and from DQ dashboarding up AI-based enrichment.

Training “PIM in a day”

Benefits

Business Drivers For A PIM Solution.

Improvement in customer engagement

Enables omnichannel data consistency, SEO-savy data and improved segmentation and personalization.

Increase in efficiency and reducing cost

Optimizes business processes, reduces manual effort and increases time to market while decreasing marketing spend, goods return and IT integation cost.

Enable growth

Increases conversion rates, shopping cart size and customer loyalty, all which contribute to the growth of your business.

Ensure compliance

Ensures compliancy with latest regulations like Foodlaw, and more recently CSRD and Digital Product Passport.

Improvement in customer engagement

Enables omnichannel data consistency, SEO-savy data and improved segmentation and personalization.

Increase in efficiency and reducing cost

Optimizes business processes, reduces manual effort and increases time to market while decreasing marketing spend, goods return and IT integation cost.

Enable growth

Increases conversion rates, shopping cart size and customer loyalty, all which contribute to the growth of your business.

Ensure compliance

Ensures compliancy with latest regulations like Foodlaw, and more recently CSRD and Digital Product Passport.

Assets

Our PIM Assets.

Data Management Framework

Our Data Management Framework forms a holistic, integrated and business-oriented approach to build a data foundation.

PIM tool selection approach

We’ve helped over 45 organizations with our unique fasttrack selection approach, supported by our toolbox, which includes a predefined list of ± 400 requirements and more.

PIM tool selection approach

Our toolkit approach guides your organization in the selection of a fit-for purpose PIM tool.

Project structure for PIM implementation

Leverage Squadra’s expertise gained during more than 60+ implementation projects, embedded in our PIM implementation approach.

How to make the implementation successful?

We’ve also seamlessly integrated our experience into our set of best practices and success factors to make the implementation of your PIM tool succesful.

Best implementation practices

Our extensive experience from many PIM implementation projects are consolidated into a comprehensive set of industry best practices.

Data Management Framework

Our Data Management Framework forms a holistic, integrated and business-oriented approach to build a data foundation.

PIM tool selection approach

We’ve helped over 45 organizations with our unique fasttrack selection approach, supported by our toolbox, which includes a predefined list of ± 400 requirements and more.

PIM tool selection approach

Our toolkit approach guides your organization in the selection of a fit-for purpose PIM tool.

Project structure for PIM implementation

Leverage Squadra’s expertise gained during more than 60+ implementation projects, embedded in our PIM implementation approach.

How to make the implementation successful?

We’ve also seamlessly integrated our experience into our set of best practices and success factors to make the implementation of your PIM tool succesful.

Best implementation practices

Our extensive experience from many PIM implementation projects are consolidated into a comprehensive set of industry best practices.

Insights

Start Transforming Your Business Today.

Read the latest insights about PIM and estabishing a solid data foundation.