Industries
Automotive
This initiative focuses on auto parts involving thousands of suppliers and major hubs like Honda, Toyota or Hyundai Motors. The demands for broadband services will be very high.
Auto Parts: Data Synchronisation
Leading industry experts and the Government have both highlighted the need to harmonise product information to reduce operating costs and improve efficiency. Studies conducted by Sterling have determined that:
- Automotive Parts Suppliers face a difficult environment: low margins, heavy financing costs, costly inefficiencies, fierce competition, slow time-to-market, excessive inventories, and high return rates.
- Over 50 percent of the parts available from the Suppliers are not reflected in the data files of their distributors or customers; Of the parts that are in common, nearly one-third require reconciliation for the part numbers to match exactly; And of those that do match there are costly and significant errors in data fields that are essential to eCommerce in one out of every ten stock keeping units
- Manufacturers like Hyundai Motors are directing their Suppliers to cleanse and synchronize their product data, and implement collaborative e-commerce. Suppliers who succeed will realize lower costs, higher sales, and greater customer loyalty. But the challenges are many: complex and unfamiliar initiatives, short timeframes, backlogged resources, and limited expertise. Suppliers cannot afford to experiment; they need a proven, low risk, and comprehensive solution to help them achieve these mandates as quickly and as economically as possible.
Sterling Commerce is the world's leading data synchronization solution provider. API have developed a hosted service model with Sterling Commerce's technology that has the following key characteristics:
- Data Collection/Cleansing to resolve issues and gaps
- Avoid costs of bad data to registry and retailers
- To focus on their business and not technology
- Upgrades, changes, investments
- Quickly deliver data to customers, without over committing resources
- Right sized solutions whose costs are in line with justification
- Ability to manage item attributes now and in future
- Keep Auto part info clean, and in sync with Suppliers
- Advisor to navigate the sync process
- Take the correct steps, avoid pitfalls
- A low cost, robust, complete solution
- No capital expense, no transaction fees
- Term agreement, starts at one year term, multi-year avail.
- Plus, we extend that with critical functions
- Data Compliance Engine (provides high quality data)
- Intelligent Sync Engine (anti-spam and thinks for you)
- Full auditing and reporting (to save you time)
- Choices for how to get your data to us (GUI, Excel, data file)
