The global nature of retail has given rise to a variety of data standards, as well as communication and synchronization methods, making it increasingly complex to ensure data accuracy. With mass merchants driving a new wave of industry standards for managing and relaying product information, the issue of data accuracy and accessibility is even more urgent.
Retail business success depends on accurate product information
Inovis Catalogue™ is the retail industry's leading product data synchronization application. It allows marketers, manufacturers and suppliers to share with retailers their latest product information, such as price, style, color, size and over 540 additional product attributes.
Home to more than 110 million current and unique items from more than 5,000 vendors, manufacturers, suppliers and their retail customers, Inovis Catalogue has the retail industry's largest database of product information. With its unsurpassed breadth and reliability, Inovis Catalogue is the cornerstone for global retail product synchronization.
Inovis Catalogue offers a complete solution for item setup and synchronization, supporting the latest EAN.UCC System global standards and initiatives so that companies can move forward with confidence in a standards-based technology when they are ready.
GS1 US' Solution Partner Program has certified Inovis Catalogue as compliant for 1SYNC™ users. Using the GDSNconnector™, Inovis Catalogue customers can register Global Trade Identification Numbers (GTINs) with 1SYNC and publish Inovis Catalogue data to retailers that subscribe to 1SYNC.
Manage item data from a single location
With a centralized single source of information across the retail supply chain process, Inovis Catalogue is the key to efficient and profitable business for both vendors and retailers.
With a proven track record for enabling retail supply chain automation, Inovis ensures fast, reliable product catalog setup and support to reduce time-to-market and drive increased sales immediately.
Suppliers: From data quality to security
Extended data attributes to hold all product content and share it with retail customers
Support for inbound EDI 832, PRICAT, qXML and flat file (CSV) documents, as well as web-based data entry, ensures implementation options that match a variety of business processes
Inbound data quality assurance via checks including GTIN uniqueness, check-digit validity, date-field integrity and other standards-based business rule validations
Fast notification and easy correction when data problems are found, allowing the correct information to get back to the trading community within hours
Data security, allowing suppliers to grant retailers access to their product information and manage their own trading partner profiles
Integration to publish product information to retailers that subscribe to 1SYNC
Expert assistance from Inovis in guiding suppliers through the data loading process
Retailers: Easy access to current product information
Multiple access options including web-based user interface, EDI, XML and real-time application integration
Attribute flexibility to support a wide range of products including grocery, drug, do-it-yourself and pet food—plus others that can be flexibly added as retailers add new departments
Automatic updates, allowing retailers to subscribe to the product information they want and receive additions and changes automatically
Support for image content in addition to extensive product attributes to support data needs for in-store, print catalog and website applications
