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Glossary term

What is Supplier Management?

Definition

Supplier management oversees data quality, communication, and performance of suppliers contributing product information. It ensures timely, accurate, and complete product data enters the PIM ecosystem. Strong supplier governance reduces errors and accelerates enrichment workflows.

Supplier management includes accountable relationships and performance, beyond storing product files. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take recurring catalog-quality issues from a supplier, summarize exceptions and assign follow-up to the responsible owner, and track corrections against the agreed submission requirements.

Supplier Management in an autonomous operation

  1. Step 1:

    Input

    Recurring catalog-quality issues from a supplier

  2. Step 2:

    Supplier Management

    Summarize exceptions and assign follow-up to the responsible owner

  3. Step 3:

    Outcome

    Track corrections against the agreed submission requirements

Supplier management includes accountable relationships and performance, beyond storing product files.

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