Improve Sales & Margins with Scalable Data Onboarding

Akeneo Supplier Data Manager (SDM) is part of Akeneo Product Cloud, also available as a standalone solution.

SDM helps Distributors and their Suppliers streamline product data exchange, correction and enrichment. Scaling supplier data onboarding saves margins and increases sales.

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In the past 12 months
9421965
of unique products records have been delivered by SDM.

You can’t onboard product data at scale if

You Waste Time
chasing catologs in emails

You spend hours
manually correcting information

You have dozens
files to manually format

Increase productivity of your procurement, marketing and e-commerce teams

Centralize data collection with collaborative Supplier Access. Share templates and guidelines with your suppliers. Streamline file import and mapping. Then adapt SDM to your process and choose between delegating, internalizing or collaborating on data correction with your suppliers.

Reduce time-to-market by automating product collection and correction.

Centralize and collaborate on product data correction and normalization. Synchronize SDM with your your PIM, ERP, pricing system or any other product record. Flag errors instantaneously to users and suppliers for dynamic correction within the SDM portal UI.

The simple, scalable, and collaborative way to collect product data from all your suppliers.

Open access to suppliers

Simplify data collection with supplier collaboration

Share user-friendly web portals with external users (ex. suppliers).

Share data sharing and enrichment guidelines with internal and external users.

Import any structured file format (xls, csv, xml and else) and associated assets.

Set the right level of collaboration with each suppliers through rights and permissions.

Collect product data

Automate data compliance verification against your data model

Expose your data requirements (from PIM or ERP or else.) through the SDM UI. Automate correction with AI or rules. Guide users through correction / enrichment.

Automate enrichment

Turn technical data provided into compelling marketing attributes

Use AI to automate product classification within your families and categories. Automatically enrich attributes from descriptions, titles and labels. Link all assets to the relevant product records.

Push data to your product stack

Synchronize all product data systems

Synchronize SDM with all your systems. SDM can directely push to any system it is connected to or will generate an easy-to-import product files. SDM will push the right slices of information to the relevant systems.

Set yourself up for omnichannel success by bringing consistent updated supplier information across all critical systems.

PIM

Collect, Map, Classify, Enrich and Import marketing and technical information from external sources into your PIM.
Ensure product data and classification consistency in your core Data Model.
Improve faceting and search with rich and normalized categories, attributes and tags.
Ensure all the basic data are in PIM in order to generate descriptions, translations channel specific enrichment.

ERP

Collect, Map, Classify, Enrich and Import Procurement, Assortment and Pricing information within your ERP.
Normalize short and long description for label generation.
Ensure logistical information presence and consistency.
Select or Exclude products from assortment manually or automatically by comparing PIM and ERP stored product data.
Automate classification of products into Procurement and ERP categories for reliable analytics.

Pricing

Collect, Map, Normalize and Verify. prices, quantities and units from pricing updates.
Automatically transform and map pricing flat files into pricing software data model.
Normalize logistical units across all suppliers sources.
Check and dynamically edit prices at import.

Hear it from our customers

Rexel

Discover how electrical distributor Rexel automated the enrichment of 800,000 products at 98% accuracy to the ETIM standard with Unifai and Akeneo PIM.

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INTERSPORT

INTERSPORT’s goal was to increase the visibility of the brand’s product offering, generate additional sales, and use this enriched product data across all channels.

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Staples

Discover how Staples utilized Akeneo technology to double their product offering and quickly pivot to take full advantage of the B2C market.

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Frequently asked questions

Do you have any questions? Contact us and we will help you!

SDM is a tool dedicated to help onboard, clean and enrich data coming from external sources into all your systems used for product record.

SDM can be used to import information into any system used for storing product records.

No. Supplier Data Manager can be used on its own as a stand alone product. No Akeneo PIM is needed

SDM can be used with external users or solely internally. While we encourage supplier-distributor collaboration, you can use the whole product internally and save tremendous amount of time.

Improve Sales & Margins with Scalable Data Onboarding

In the past 12 months
9421965
of unique products records have been delivered by SDM.