Akeneo implementation specialist
For whom ?
- Functional implementer
- Future Akeneo project manager
Objectives
Day 1 – Introduction to Akeneo
- Understanding what is a PIM for
- Understanding Akeneo’s key concepts and how to address them
- Learn how to be daily efficient thanks to Akeneo’s ergonomics
- Learn how to be effective in enriching your product information thanks to best practice examples
Day 2 – Structure a catalog
- Manage product structures
- Manage the structure of products with variants and defin the best modeling
- Define the best structure to efficiently manage your customers product structures
- Think about the taxonomy of your product edit form
Day 3 – Project methodology, workshops organization
- Provide an overview of an Akeneo project anatomy
- Prepare workshops
- Plan the workshops according to the customer organization and data
- Define the best product structure
Requirements
- Multi channel and e-commerce knowledge
Training program
Day 1 – Introduction to Akeneo, catalog and users management
The Akeneo PIM has been designed to be simple and user-friendly.
This will allow each user to be efficient with product data management so they can provide a high-quality description of each product for the customers.
A properly filled out product edit form does ensure better conversion rates and less returns !
- Essential Akeneo’s concepts + how to implement them
- Global Akeneo overview + ergonomics
- Effective product enrichment
- Product edit form details
- Data completness
- Mass edit
- Sequential edit
- Gathering products
- Introduction to product models
- Groups
- Product associations
- Workflows
- Proposal / validation workflows
- Publication’s Workflows
- Introduction to imports and exports
- Language setup
- Catalog entities management
- Manage families, categories, attributes, assets
- Users and users rights management
- Manage roles and rights on actions
- Manage groups and catalog and products access
- Configure smart attributes
- Configure reference data
- Exercices at each stage, Quizz, True/False
Day 2 – Helping teams to structure their catalogs
Fit and refine your team’s product structures with Akeneo features. Find the best way to model each product type and facilitate import, enrichment and export.
- Modelling the products
- Simple products
- Products with variants: define product model
- Products with variants: define the level(s) of enrichment
- Use cases and exercises in groups
- Enriching products with variations
- Defining information enrichment level
- Parent and child values
- Thinking about variation axis
- Linking the products
- Range of products
- Associations vs Groups
- Preparing e-merchandising
- Organize teams around product data: define enrichment workflow
Day 3 – Project methodology, workshops organization
Prepare your project to attract users working with Akeneo!
Apply your Akeneo knowledge to specific business situations creating the best catalogue structure.
Implementing an Akeneo project is more about business knowledge than technical one.
- Methodology and workshops:
- Akeneo project steps: goals, prerequisites, deliverables, attendees
- Prepare a scoping workshop
- Define and scope the project
- Define the product catalog structure
- Feed and spread the product catalog
- Use cases and examples
- Organize the project:
- Standard planning for an Akeneo project
- Akeneo’s role vs integrator’s one
- Good people to good workshops