DataSync with Inovis

Hi I'm Stephen Jefferies, Head of Retail for the Inovis Corporation in Europe.

I'd like to take a couple of minutes to explain what product data synchronisation or DataSync is and how it will affect you and your business.

For years every business in the retail supply chain has created its own basic product information.

That product information captures descriptions, sizes, colours, barcodes and pricing in order to run internal business systems effectively.

Major retailers lose hundreds of man hours every week using various catalogues, forms, spreadsheets emails and fax requests to thousands of suppliers in order to uniquely identify the same products. In the same way, suppliers lose hundreds of man hours providing product information to hundreds of retailers in the format requested by their customers.

Supply chains spend many thousands of hours a week just ensuring that product information is synchronised in order to do business effectively.

When this largely manual process inevitably breaks down, product data becomes inaccurate and inaccurate product data effects individual departments all over the business.

A missing or incorrect bar-code can halt processes at the warehouse or store, increasing dump sku figures at the till, affecting re-ordering, picking and ultimately stock availability to customers and retail sales and profits.

From the warehouse to the shop floor right back to the accounts team; time, effort and money is again spent to rectify these issues.

So, with such a vast network of businesses involved what is the solution? What is the next step in supply chain collaboration?

Inovis Datasync is a simple service that takes the product information from any supplier in the world and provides a single, online product catalogue to any retailer in the world.

One connection for the supplier to maintain, one connection to each retailer and product information provided accurately, securely and electronically to all business partners.

Users of DataSync are automatically alerted when items are updated or discontinued

So you know your data will always be current.

Inovis manages these programs for you.

So that you can quickly realise the benefits of a single, world-wide product catalogue and we've been doing this globally for over 20 years.

John King CEO of House of Fraser, who are one of our customers says he wants, "communication between buyers and suppliers to be about new products, re-ordering, promotion and price initiatives and not about poor data and problems".

The global product catalogue is bringing a new era of communications between suppliers and retailers in the UK.

Today we synchronise 120 million unique products between 6000 businesses and are very proud to have the worlds best brands as our customers.

It's time to get onboard.

And start using Datasync to manage product information  effeciently for the good of your business and the entire supply chain.

Contact me or any member of my team to find out more.