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Product Data Management (PDM)

The lack of a single, accurate source of product information in a retail organisation, can have a wide range of impacts. Lost sales due to delays in new product introductions. Stock-outages when suppliers have been sent inaccurate information. Poor access to reliable product information across the store, online and at customer-response centres.

You, however, can rely on Manthan Product Data Management services, for all the right answers.

Our PDM service specializes in creating a single view of a product across the organization, and multiple channels, to improve performance management. This results in a coherent view of the product and consistent definitions, that help you with

• Improving performance management of new products, channels and vendors,
• SCM and replenishment.
• Enhanced service levels.
  
  

Manthan’s PDM service does more for you, by:

• Creating a single view of a product across all operational and analytical uses.
• Providing a flexible data model, workflow and event management.
• Synchronizing with multiple systems.

Using best practices, Manthan’s consultants drive the objective of collecting, distributing and maintaining impressive quantities of data for you. All, while ensuring the highest standards of quality. What’s more, the program is also geared to function outside the initial parameters, by covering emerging business requirements.

Best-practice definitions for key processes include:

• Taxonomy and workflow development.
• Data collection and maintenance.
• Program management.
• Vendor education.
• Customer support.

You’ll find that Manthan’s PDM service includes tracking and managing all changes to product related data, accelerating ROIs, reducing time spent organizing and tracking design data, boosting productivity through reuse of product design data, enhancing collaboration, and improved performance management.