Discover how a global sports retailer utilized Akeneo and Unifai to improve efficiency, reduce time-to-market, and create a better customer experience.
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INTERSPORT, like many other retailers, faced a formidable challenge in the mundane, repetitive, and time-consuming task of manually classifying new products. With over 700 hundred stores in France and over 1.5 million products processed every year, the need for a faster, more accurate solution for managing, optimizing, and sharing product information across scattered teams and technologies quickly became imperative.
INTERSPORT’s quest for data efficiency led them to Unifai for an AI-powered product classification solution, and Akeneo for a centralized source of truth powered by a comprehensive Product Experience (PX) Strategy.
Unifai seamlessly automated the classification of new products, slashing the time required by this arduous task by an impressive 50% and without compromising any accuracy. In fact, it improved product classification accuracy by 95%, ensuring that Intersport’s data remained reliable. This newfound efficiency wasn’t just about saving time and improving the quality of data; it was also about freeing up employees to focus on more complex and value-add work.
Unifai categorized the new products with the same accuracy as our teams while reducing our catalog processing time by 50%. This frees up time for the data integration team and buyers who have more time to source new products and optimize the product mix.
For many retailers facing the challenge of manual product classification, artificial intelligence emerges as a game-changing solution that enables enhanced efficiency, data accuracy, and stronger customer experiences. But these benefits all require a foundation of product information to support the AI technology; if your team can’t provide the data needed to train the model, then the model will have nothing to produce.
In an industry where time, accuracy, and efficiency are paramount, combining a centralized record of product information with AI-powered product classification is your gateway to a brighter, more profitable future. To learn more about INTERSPORT’s journey to product excellence, you can download the full case study.
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It used to take a repository manager a week to process a catalog of 8000 products. With Unifai, we spend only 2 or 3 days to process the same volume, and some catalogs are categorized in 1 hour!
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