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Technical wholesale
Product data for technical wholesale: control starts before your PIM.
Hundreds of thousands of items, dozens of suppliers and endless technical specifications. Every supplier delivers differently, and your ERP, webshop and customers expect complete, correct item data. ConnectingTheDots structures, classifies and enriches item data right from the source.
Technical wholesalers keeping their item data flowing with ConnectingTheDots
FROM SUPPLIER TO ITEM FILE
Less manual work. More control over your range.
Complete item data, automatically
Mapping, ETIM classification, unit normalisation and specification checks happen as automatically as possible.
One item source for ERP, webshop and customers
Your ERP, B2B webshop and customer exports work from the same item data.
More items without extra manual work
Add suppliers, product groups and ranges without your product data management team having to grow.
A familiar situation
The complexity starts before your ERP.
Most of the time in product data management is not spent on managing itself, but on collecting, converting and completing supplier data.
2BA, GS1 and Excel, all mixed together.
Different files, different ETIM versions, different units and varying quality. Every price list or range update means checking everything again.
Technical specifications are never complete.
Missing attributes, wrong units and outdated datasheets make it hard for customers to find the right item.
Every update, the same steps.
A new price list, a new supplier or a range change: mapping, classifying, completing and checking all over again.
Product relations get lost.
Accessories, spare parts, alternatives and composite products are not recorded anywhere in a logical way. Customers order the wrong part and your sales support team gets the questions.
How we approach it
From supplier data to item information you can trust.
Bring differences back to one structure
We map fields, values, units and classifications from every supplier to your item model, even when suppliers use different ETIM versions.
- Map fields automatically
- Normalise units and packaging
- Apply ETIM classification
Complete items before publication
Missing attributes, descriptions, documents and relations such as accessories and replacement items are added, validated and enriched with AI where possible.
- Complete technical attributes and standards
- Reuse attributes per product group
- Link accessories, parts and alternatives
Send every system and every customer the right data
ERP, B2B webshop, customer exports and data pools such as 2BA get exactly the item information they need, in the right format.
- Integrations with ERP such as SAP, Exact and Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Delivery to 2BA
- Customer-specific exports
Product data management in technical wholesale, in practice.
From supplier data to ERP, webshop and customer. This is how technical wholesalers keep large item files manageable with ConnectingTheDots.
Control over data from hundreds of suppliers
Dozon, a wholesaler of technical items, has supplier files recognised, mapped and validated automatically before they reach the PIM.
- Automated import
- One central source
- Consistent item data
One source, clear workflows
Royal Houweling, a specialist in horticultural and cultivation products, manages product data centrally and routes tasks automatically to the right teams, from purchasing to copywriting.
- Task-driven work
- One source of truth
- Workflows per team
From supplier data to sales-ready products
Wildkamp automatically turns supplier data into sales-ready products in one central environment.
- Automated import
- One central source
- Sales-ready product data
WHAT FLOW DELIVERS
Complete specifications. Fewer errors for your customers.
New items available faster
Process price lists, range updates and new suppliers in hours instead of weeks.
Complete specifications, fewer errors
Correct attributes, units and documents mean fewer wrong orders, fewer returns and fewer questions for your inside sales team.
Scale without your team growing
Manage more items and suppliers with the same structure, rules and automated flows.
SOLUTIONS FOR TECHNICAL WHOLESALE
Where technical wholesalers usually start.
Technical wholesalers usually start with these solutions to scale product data management, suppliers and channels.
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Frequently asked questions.
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Product data management is collecting, structuring, enriching and keeping all item information up to date: from descriptions and technical attributes to units, prices, documents and relations. In technical wholesale this often means hundreds of thousands of items from dozens of suppliers.
Your ERP is built for stock, prices and orders. A PIM is built for rich item information: attributes, classifications, documents and channel-specific content. Together they make sure item data is right everywhere.
Items are classified according to ETIM, including the related attributes. Supplier data in different ETIM versions is automatically converted to your data model, so classifications are the same in every system.
You process data from 2BA automatically into your own item file, and you put your item data into the structure 2BA requires. That way you deliver faster and without errors.
You link accessories, spare parts, alternatives and composite products to each other. Those relations automatically go along to webshop, ERP and customer exports.
Yes. Per customer you set which items, fields and formats they receive, and those exports are updated automatically.
AI fills in missing attributes, suggests classifications and improves descriptions. Automatically where possible, with review by your team where needed.
You record attributes at product group level and reuse them for every item in that group. You only adjust exceptions per item.