“Our own in-house PIM (Product Information Management) System doesn’t have the ETIM technical structure built in” explains Louis, “and to achieve EDATA’s Gold Standard product data – which we really wanted – we needed ETIM-ise our products.
“The answer was to use EDATA Creator which is part of the data pool package of support that’s available to us as subscribing manufacturer. EDATA Creator is a cloud-based solution with a range of PIM functionalities including the built-in ETIM structure, and as it’s all part of our EDATA subscription there was no extra cost to worry about.
“Without EDATA Creator we’d be limping along but it has saved me so much time and is easy to use. Javier Garcia, in the EDATA team at the EDA, was a brilliant help. He gave me full training and detailed instructions on what I needed to do and that was very useful.
“I used the built-in ETIM structure to select the right ETIM classes for our products and then populated the values for the given ETIM Features. All alphanumeric features were configured as drop-down lists, as per the ETIM model, which was super helpful.
“Once this was done, we combined the product information from our PIM and EDATA Creator and it was all uploaded into the data pool – and we’re live and Gold!
“I am not a product data expert by any means, and I was thrown in at the deep end and whole EDATA service, and being able to use the EDATA Creator service, has saved me so much time and effort. My advice to other manufacturers out there is talk to the EDATA team and let them show you how EDATA Creator can be used.
“Now we have to keep our data maintained and up-to-date, but to have cracked the ETIM challenge has made a massive difference and is a great leap forward.”
