With your business partners relying increasingly on real-time supply and demand information, you cannot afford to use erroneous product data. Manually investigating and reconciling bad data can cost organizations valuable time and productivity. What is worse, ignoring the problem allows these costs to compound.

TIE solutions help ensure that the product information you share with partners is consistent and accurate every day. Our Product Information Management solutions are fully automated and include powerful capabilities supporting data synchronization. They are flexible enough to meet the needs of large enterprises without breaking the budget of small or medium-sized companies.

• Manage product information more effectively than with inefficient spreadsheets
• Achieve internal data alignment, ensuring that information changes cascade through internal systems, applications, publications, and external providers
• Eliminate costly, inefficient errors that occur when managing out-of-stocks, introducing new product information, checking out items, and more
• Automate workflow and validation processes and update partners in real time, all the while requiring less resources and interaction

Product Information Management means cost savings and increased efficiency in most case studies, most notably manufacturing and retail. In fact it represents a proven yet largely unexplored opportunity to improve an organizationís bottom line.

For example, manufacturers stand to save tens of thousands of dollars with Product Information Management just by reducing out-of-stock situations and time to market. As a solution it frees resources from having to perform time-consuming manual tasks and allows them to focus on revenue opportunities. And it helps breed efficiency increases throughout the organization, from warehousing to distribution to customer service.

Retailers can realize significant benefits in operations, merchandising, and more. Product Information Management can eliminate thousands of resource-hours lost in out-of-stocks and checkout errors. It can reduce merchandising time when introducing new items or updating existing ones. And it can streamline both inbound and outbound logistics.