by Brian Roizen | Oct 16, 2018 | Tips, Strategy & Insights
A typical ERP system covers key business processes such as Human Resource Management, Supply Chain Management, Purchasing, Customer Relationship Management and many other business related modules. These modules (or core capabilities) are outside the scope of a PIM’s,... by Brian Roizen | Oct 16, 2018 | Tips, Strategy & Insights
A PIM serves to consolidate and administer scattered product information into a single holistic product data ecosystem. A PIM is different than a feed platform, because it’s really meant to allow editing of product data on a one-by-one basis, rather than through... 
by Brian Roizen | Sep 28, 2018 | Tips, Strategy & Insights
There are a few different formats that Rakuten accepts (tsv, csv, zip, xml), so it is important to know whether or not they have an existing feed file. In addition, there are two versions of attributes that you can work with – one is Rakuten specific attributes, and... 
by Brian Roizen | Sep 28, 2018 | Tips, Strategy & Insights
If you have a client that wants a BazaarVoice export, you’ll have to change your feed a bit, add some fields, and get FTP/SFTP information from the client.Here’s the general structure of a BazaarVoice XML export:... 
by Brian Roizen | Sep 27, 2018 | Tips, Strategy & Insights
Ambiguous GTINs — Prepend enough leading zeros to your GTIN values to make them at least 12 digits (12 to 14 is fine). Note that if a GTIN is 8 or fewer digits to begin with, it may be invalid and you may be better off setting it to empty. See Matthew for more details... 
by Brian Roizen | Sep 27, 2018 | Tips, Strategy & Insights
Commas in certain fields in a Google Shopping export can cause Google to interpret the data in that column as a list of items, rather than a single image. For example, when seeing ‘L,XL’ in the ‘size’ column, Google will interpret that this product is available in...