ACES

To maintain the aftermarket catalog information, there is a need to adhere to the Industry standards. Aftermarket Catalog Exchange Standard (ACES) is the auto care industry standard that reduces the complexity of data, eliminates duplicate work, and helps to manage and exchange catalog application data. It also helps to identify the right parts and their fitment to vehicles.

About ACES App

The application allows the users to upload ACES XML. The app further provides the autocare data validations, data standardization, notes standardization, advanced validation, data persistence, and report generation.

ACES app is an out-of-the-box solution to manage the complete information lifecycle of a Catalog. The automated rule-based data management ensures a better quality of data, faster onboarding of data, and an efficient product life cycle aided by the system's workflow management. It is primarily designed to provision and manage the large-scale data of the vendor or supplier users.

ACES app provides a schema of a machine-readable format (XML) for customers to exchange automotive data while adhering to industry standards. It helps to review vendor's catalog information with minimal effort and lesser time. It allows vendors or suppliers to manage automotive data and assets by providing the ability to import ACES XML files. It provides the flexibility to map the catalog information with corresponding databases and evaluate every catalog record. It also includes a set of basic pre-configured use cases to Onboard, Enrich, Govern, and Publish Application and Catalog records in the application.

The ACES app helps partners and customers to:

• Define and maintain accurate product data.
• Provide a single source of truth across the enterprise.
• Efficient business process in managing product information.
• Reduce the time to market for products.
• Reduce errors in parts management.
• Faster vendor onboarding, brand onboarding, and parts onboarding.

ACES app is primarily designed to provision and manage the large-scale data of vendor or supplier users. It is pre-built with multiple business conditions, which helps to evaluate every catalog record to ensure the quality of the catalog data. This offers you several benefits by providing end-to-end coverage of the most common use cases.

Customers or vendors can get a subscription for this app by sending the request to our Operation team. The request will be addressed by the team and this app setup is configured accordingly. Users can start using the app immediately as the system is live on day one with the subscription and default configurations.

The following diagram illustrates the end-to-end ACES Automotive Aftermarket offering:

Key Benefits

The application allows organizations to manage automotive data using Automotive App. The offerings are built to manage automotive data and can be leveraged to accomplish business needs and achieve better business productivity.

The following are the key benefits:

• Reduce Cost: The application provides automated and rule-based data management, which ensures a better quality of data with fewer errors.
• Increased Revenue: The application provides better data and consistent product information with the improved customer experience that helps to improve the business. It also helps to introduce new products, vendor onboarding, and brand onboarding quickly and efficiently.
• Improved Business Productivity: Provides an efficient business process life cycle aided by the system's workflow management.

Key Features

The Automotive Aftermarket offerings are built on the application which allows to model and manage the automotive data with pre-built Automotive Model. The model supports ACES XML and helps to perform data load validations. It also helps to validate the data as per the industry standards by validating the conflicting notes, conflicting applications, overlaps, and so on.

The following are the key features of Automotive Aftermarket offerings:

• Inbuilt Support for ACES XML – Customers/Partners can upload the XML file directly to our application. The inbuilt Automotive Model helps to perform fewer validations during the import such as brand checks, duplicates, overlaps, note conflict checks, and so on that help businesses with good quality parts, applications, and vehicle data.

• Data Insights – Ability to perform data load validations and provides insight on the base vehicle information, assemblies, sub-assemblies, and parts information. It also helps to validate the net changes, Parts coverage, Vendor, Brand, Part type, and so on.

• Industry Standard Validations – Ability to validate the data as per the industry standards by validating the conflicting notes, conflicting applications, overlaps, and so on.

• Catalog Management – Provides a single view of parts and vehicle data. It helps to get the Qualifiers and notes. It also helps to manage fitment, special instructions, and so on.

Targeted Audience

This article is targeted to business users, and consultants, including Suppliers, Vendors, Content Analysts, and Content Specialists, who are responsible for managing the automotive data.

App Details

The below table provides you the App details:

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