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Glossary term

What is Product Data Governance in PIM?

Definition

Product data governance defines the policies, roles, taxonomies, LOVs, UOMs, and rules required to maintain high-quality product data. In PIM, governance ensures consistency, compliance, and controlled access across teams. Strong governance reduces errors and improves long-term data health. PIM platforms automate governance to enforce standards reliably.

Product governance connects field ownership, evidence, approvals, and publication responsibilities. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take a supplier proposal to change a regulated specification, apply the configured owner and approval rules, and release the change only after the accountable decision.

Product Data Governance in PIM in an autonomous operation

  1. Step 1:

    Input

    A supplier proposal to change a regulated specification

  2. Step 2:

    Product Data Governance in PIM

    Apply the configured owner and approval rules

  3. Step 3:

    Outcome

    Release the change only after the accountable decision

Product governance connects field ownership, evidence, approvals, and publication responsibilities.