Solution description

The Product Information Management for Retailers solution addresses retailers' needs by helping them to:

Business integration based on IBM® e-business technology not only enables manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers to improve the quality of item data, but opens additional possibilities for enterprise collaboration and process optimization that can generate increased revenue, reduce costs, and provide competitive advantage.

To process inbound data, the solution utilizes modules called collaboration templates, which contain the business logic. Detailed information about these collaboration templates is included in the section Collaboration templates.

By utilizing a series of collaboration objects based on various collaboration templates, together with business objects, connectors, maps, and managed WebSphere® MQ Workflow (which automates retailers' item data review/approval processes), the following tasks can be successfully automated:

Note: The term connector used throughout refers to the runtime portion of an IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter.

The result is a highly efficient solution that can jump-start integration into the UCCnet registry, reduce operational costs and errors, increase sales by providing the accurate, timely data needed for educated business decisions, and increase market share by accelerating product-ro-retail shelf cycles.

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