Glossary term
What is Supplier Data Onboarding?
Definition
Supplier data onboarding collects, validates, and standardises product information received from suppliers before adding it to the PIM. It ensures data meets quality, compliance, and formatting requirements. This reduces delays, improves listing speed, and enhances catalog consistency.
Supplier intake includes submission identity, product matching, field mapping, and acceptance criteria. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take a first catalog submission from a lighting supplier, check its structure and match product identifiers, and accept valid drafts and return a targeted exception list.
Supplier Data Onboarding in an autonomous operation
- Step 1:
Input
A first catalog submission from a lighting supplier
- Step 2:
Supplier Data Onboarding
Check its structure and match product identifiers
- Step 3:
Outcome
Accept valid drafts and return a targeted exception list
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