Distribution

Common Business Issues We Can Solve:

Every business is different. Yet so many of the same challenges and obstacles resonate from company to company and industry to industry. With years of experience paying close attention to our clients' needs, we understand why you need to solve challenges in these critical areas:

Improve data access and consistency

Access and identify supplier product data
Maintain complete data for external trading partners
Maintain current, accurate, and complete product data
Eliminate incomplete, incompatible, and inconsistent data within legacy and ERP systems
Conform product data to multiple standards, both internal to the enterprise as well as to trading partners

Streamline data management

Improve normalization by converting and mapping product data, including part numbers, UPC attributes, and product descriptions
Gain real-time visibility into a Master Data File for all inventory
Create standards and content data governance
Improve strategic sourcing initiatives that have been impacted dramatically by lack of spending visibility

Enhance parts management and inventory

Create a single, aggregated, standardized source of product and inventory information
Remove inventory redundancies
Locate alternates and replacement parts from preferred suppliers
Leverage and maintain preferred parts list for contracts/internal reuse

Support sales and marketing needs

Track and report sales revenues, procurement and expenses that conform to data governance standards
Manage data sourcing for catalog creation
Maintain product descriptions for various needs

Improve shipping and billing

Maintain accurate customer shipping and invoicing data
Ensure that products have the right content

Common Obstacles we can overcome:

Multiple sources for data and parts information
Informal or fragmented corporate data governance standards
Systems without unified data standards
Prolific use of spread sheets by individual sourcing professionals
Silos of spend and sourcing data stored in corporate legacy systems
WMS and ERP data systems are not synchronized
Non-existent real-time data standards
Lack of priority for data maintenance
Insufficient staff/expertise to ensure successful results
Source residing outside the enterprise
Source material in multiple, non-integrated business silos within the enterprise
Lack of robust tools and systems to quickly and accurately input and maintain source data
Inadequate exposure of new, changed and/or obsolete products

It All Boils Down To This:

You need a unified data source that drives down costs, reduces inventory, and enhances purchasing mechanics.
You need to be able to efficiently and consistently pick, pack, and ship the right product, to the right customer at the right price.
Your marketing and sales professionals need to be able to source, build, maintain and publish rich product information on a consistent basis.

ByteManagers can make it happen…we'll help you see your data deliver.

ByteManagers' Common Bundled Solutions:

Data and Content

ByteManagers will work closely with your team to develop reliable, custom data and content solutions, including:

Data Usability and Data Analysis Assessment
Data Integration Services
Data Standards and Schema Development
Rich Content Development
Collateral Development
Procurement Catalog
Managed Services: Price File Synchronization
Managed Services: Vendor Relations Management
Managed Services: Data Maintenance
Taxonomy mapping
Categorization and De-duplication
Data Cleansing and Enhancement

Document Management

ByteManagers' experts will also establish dependable, customized document management solutions, including:

Imaging/scanning, and related conversion of paper or film
Digitization of catalogs, MSDS sheets, spec engineering drawings and other media sources
Indexing/data entry from paper, images or film
Forms processing data extraction
Data extraction from paper, images or film
PDF conversions, HTML tagging, etc.
OCR conversion and clean Up
XML, SGML and HTML coding
Digitization of invoices, pick-tickets, bills of lading, etc.