The current economic climate has hit retailers hard as customers are spending less. The tough economic conditions of recent years have meant there is renewed focus on the distribution industry due to the impact that logistics can make on the effectiveness of the supply chain. To remain competitive consumer goods retail and distribution companies need to continue to contain supply chain costs and improve service to meet more exacting demands from customers.

High quality product data and information for supply chain management and process visibility are central to the retailers and distributors achieving these goals. Data standards, such as those developed by GS1, were essential when it came to leveraging information to streamline operations and manage trade efficiently. Despite a clear understanding of the issues retailers around the world still face persistent problems with supplier product data that threaten to undermine effectiveness, eat into margins and stifle their ability to innovate.

Manual Workarounds Unsustainable

The cost of manual workarounds for dealing with low quality product data is growing and their effectiveness diminishing with increased demand for accurate data. Looking ahead the retailers can expect the problem to escalate as the volume of information and number of individual attributes expands. Without efficient processes for obtaining, maintaining and accessing accurate product data retailers will struggle to meet increased information demands.

Clavis Data Validation Services™ on-Demand is an innovative, efficient, low cost and easily adopted solution for monitoring and validating data at multiple points in the supply chain. The web service validations are delivered in batch or real-time to suit each process where data is collected, used or exchanged. The solution enables retailers to enforce data rules as data is entered into forms, documents, databases, order entry systems and backend enterprise applications such as SAP. Clavis presents the results of data validations in an easy to understand dashboard with score cards that enable data managers to identify where data problems exist and to collaborate across the supply chain to fix issues for good, by provding score cards and actionable feedback to data provides and suppliers.

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