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Why Retailers & Distributors Need a Product Cloud

As a retailer or distributor, whether you sell B2B or direct to consumer, a product cloud scales your data collection, enrichment, activation, and optimization strategies to deliver winning product experiences for your customers.

Leading retailers and distributors choose Akeneo

Improve operational efficiency and scale your go-to-market strategies

No matter your industry, retailers and distributors need accurate, complete, and consistent product information that is prepared to scale with your business.

Onboard

Ingest product data from suppliers, mapped automatically to your data model, and transformed to meet your internal data standards

Enrich

Improve the quality and usefulness of key attributes to help your customers find and purchase your products

Activate

Syndicate your product experiences on your D2C website and share with internal teams to support the entire customer journey

Optimize

Measure the success of your products and improve processes and product information with actionable insights

Key Benefits for Retailers & Distributors

A single source of truth: Centralizing, normalizing, and enriching all product data in a single platform ensures that you have consistency in product details, descriptions, and specifications to maintain a coherent and reduce the risk of conflicting or outdated information.

Improved customer experience: Accurate and up-to-date product information across all touchpoints contributes to a seamless and positive customer journey, irrespective of how or where customers interact with your products.

Increased operational efficiency: Instead of managing disparate sets of data in different formats, retailers can centralize product information and streamline workflows to encourage collaboration. New products or updated information is processed at scale, leading to increased efficiency, reduced errors, and quicker time-to-market.

Time and cost savings: Chasing suppliers or manually updating thousands of products can be resource-intensive and prone to errors. Automating this process and offering easy-to-use tools can save your team’s time and money.

Quickly adapt to market changes: In a dynamic market environment, retailers need to adapt quickly to changes in product information, market trends, new channels, and customer and buyer expectations. A product cloud allows for rapid updates at scale, ensuring that the latest information is communicated across all channels.

Enabling Retailers and Distributors with Akeneo Product Cloud

Scale your operations efficiently and execute a winning go-to-market strategy with accurate, complete, and accessible product data inside Akeneo

Onboard Supplier Data at Scale

Streamline product data exchange, correction, and enrichment. Revolutionize outdated processes and leverage AI to automate supplier data onboarding at scale

Centralize Product Information

Build a single source of truth with accurate and complete product data – allowing teams to collaborate together and execute go-to-market strategies with more agility and confidence

Digitize Offline Businesses

Offer your customers a unified buying experience with the tools you need to digitize the entire customer journey through discovery, purchase, and post-purchase interactions

Future-Proof with Composable Commerce

Unlike a traditional monolithic approach, composable commerce allows organizations to leverage best-of-breed commerce vendors to create an ecosystem that is customized to meet their organization’s needs.

Customer Stories

Giu 11, 2021

Turner Price

 

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Ott 20, 2020

Petra

Petra has spent more than 30 years growing into a massive distributor, offering products in more than 60 categories.

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Ago 12, 2020

The Conran Shop

The Conran Shop is a well-known brand with a proud history of design and innovation.

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Are you ready to take the next step?

Our Akeneo Experts are here to answer all the questions you might have about our products and help you to move forward on your PXM journey.