Common Mistake too many people involved

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What do you think of when you hear the term "product information management"?

When searching the internet for words like "product" and "management," many sites related to "inventory management" are listed, but it is difficult to find information about PIM. Many people may associate it with "inventory management," "order management," or "production management."

If you gather project stakeholders based on these vague associations, the organizations and people involved will be diverse. As a result, each stakeholder will have a different image of "information that needs to be managed," and the project may not move forward at all because the direction cannot be decided.

When starting a project to implement a Product Information Management System (PIM), you must first carefully consider what information should be managed as product information.

We recommend limiting the information cash app database to be managed to only that related to sales promotion, and starting small with as few people involved as possible.

Common Failures (No. 2): Necessary systems not in place
Companies considering PIM have tens of thousands of products. Furthermore, each product category has different product characteristics. Based on our experience, we can estimate the product configuration to a certain extent, and consider how to store the products to design the optimal "product model definition" and proceed with the PIM construction project.

However, there are many cases where only customers who are familiar with the product can understand, such as cases where there is variation in wording and there are multiple product pieces of information that express the same meaning, or cases where the product composition is complex due to past history.

If someone in-house who is knowledgeable about the products is not involved in the project, including these circumstances, it may be discovered that there is an exception to the rule when the data is actually input, and the product model definition may need to be fundamentally revised, or the same product information may be treated as different information on the website. Depending on the timing of this discovery, it may be necessary to make major reworks and cause major delays in the schedule.

Therefore, it is essential to have someone who is knowledgeable about the product.