Glossary term
What is Data Onboarding in PIM?
Definition
Data onboarding in PIM involves collecting, importing, validating, and standardising data from suppliers or internal teams. It ensures product information enters the system in a clean, usable, and complete state. This accelerates time-to-market and minimises cleanup.
Onboarding includes establishing identity and readiness, not only creating a record. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take a new supplier lighting range, map source fields, identify products, and check required PIM attributes, and create draft records and queue exceptions for review.
Data Onboarding in PIM in an autonomous operation
- Step 1:
Input
A new supplier lighting range
- Step 2:
Data Onboarding in PIM
Map source fields, identify products, and check required PIM attributes
- Step 3:
Outcome
Create draft records and queue exceptions for review
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