Solution:
Product Information Management (PIM)
Industry:
Construction
Streamlined Product Management for a Building Materials Distributor
The Challenge
The Polish branch of SIG is part of an international construction materials group. The company's product range includes specialized materials needed at every stage of construction and finishing work. With an extensive sales network in 9 European countries, the SIG Group has been successfully developing an omnichannel sales model for several years, combining both traditional sales and online channels.
As part of its ongoing digital transformation with Univio, SIG wanted to streamline the management of thousands of products.
- The company's goal was to bring all key information together in one place and implement a more modern product management solution.
- Previously, product data was scattered, with some stored in the ERP system, with images and graphics stored on a media server. Data was transferred using FTP, which was an inefficient solution.
- The existing solution created errors in the product information, and it was difficult to make bulk changes to the data.
- SIG also wanted to streamline the process of adding product descriptions to eliminate errors caused by manual data entry.
- The time taken to update data on the e-commerce platform was also an issue. Previously, the large volume of data meant that changes took a long time to appear. The mechanism for identifying changes was inefficient, as it had to compare collections of all products each time.
The Solution
- To improve the process of product information management, we implemented the Pimcore system and integrated it with the company's existing systems, including the e-commerce platform.
- The Pimcore system retrieves information about the creation of a new product from the ERP system, and the product information is enriched with images and other necessary data. within the PIM
- Pimcore can manage thousands of indexes, complete key product information in a consistent and error-free manner, and automatically share it with other systems.
- The AWS cloud is used for data storage instead of a media server, so information is more secure and resources can be easily scaled up as needed.
- MuleSoft's integration layer, along with a message queuing tool, allows information to be automatically transferred and updated between enterprise systems. As a result, product data on the B2B platform is updated much faster.
The Result
The Technologies
/ Behind Solutions
142% Increase in Revenue From Online Sales
We integrated a sales platform with SIG’s existing ERP system to better enable their 50 branches.