Staging and Data Onboarding from Syndication to P

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Data Onboarding from Syndication to PIM

Scenario: Onboard the Product data from Syndication to PIM.

The Supplier should create the Product and publish it to Retailer.

Let us consider that the Retailer have the Product in Syndication (GTIN-34543511178907) with the following attributes:

Attribute Value
Functional Name Crab Meat Jumbo
Net Weight 12 LBR
Brand Name Phillips

The application provides onboarding feature, so that the Retailer can onboard the product data from Syndication to PIM, and leverage the onboarded data.

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Data Onboarding Procedure

If the Supplier publishes the product data successfully, that product data will be received by the Retailer and is displayed in the staging phase.

To onboard the product data from Syndication to PIM perform the following steps:

  1. Login to the Syndication application, by specifying the appropriate Retailer credentials.

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    Result: The Home page is displayed.

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  2. From the navigation menu click Products Staging.

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    Result: The Product Staging page is displayed.
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  3. Click Inbound Publications tab.
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    Result: The list of all products that are received from the Suppliers are displayed in this tab with specific GDSN status.

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GDSN Status:
  • Eligible: Indicates that the Product is new, and no actions were performed by the Retailer to the associated Product.
  • Auto Matched: Indicates that the Retailer seed product and Supplier published product have identical attribute values.
  • Synchronized: Indicates that the Product is already accepted and created by the Retailer.
  • Item Change: Indicates that the changes were made by the Supplier to the Product after the Retailer's acceptance.
  • Rejected: Indicates that the Product is rejected by the Retailer.

  1. In the search field, mention the GTIN number of the Product that you want to onboard.

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    Result: The Product with the identical GTIN number is displayed.

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  2. Select the Product and then click Create Product to onboard the product data to PIM.
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    Result: The created Product is now visible in the Products page with the GDSN Status as Synchronized.

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Notes:

  • The process of product staging to onboard a product is not mandatory. Syndication users can also use workflows to retrieve publications and syndicate it to PIM. For more information, see Workflow Advancement and Status Synchronization.

  • The process of onboarding product data from Syndication to PIM supports the required auto conversion between attribute values of type: date and datetime.
    For example, if the current attribute value type is date (dd/mm/yyyy) and the required attribute value type to onboard product data is datetime (dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss), time (00:00:00) is appended to the date.
    Similarly, if the current attribute value type is datetime (dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss) and the required attribute value type to onboard product data is date (dd/mm/yyyy), hh:mm:ss is removed from the datetime.

  • The process of auto conversion between date and datetime is according to the corresponding time zones. For example, the datetime in Syndication is 06/03/2024 13:06 PM IST . When onboarding the product data, it is 06/03/2024 02:38 AM in Washington, DC, United States (UTC-5).

View Onboarded Product in PIM

To view the onboarded Product data in PIM, perform the following steps:

  1. Login to PIM with appropriate credentials.

  2. From the navigation menu Click Search > Search Thing Domain.
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    Result: Search Thing Domain page is displayed.
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  3. In the Search field, specify the GTIN number of the Product, that was onboarded from Syndication.
    Result: The Product with the identical GTIN number is displayed in the search results.
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  4. Click the Product to view the product details.
    Result: The Entity Manage page is displayed.
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  5. Click Attributes tab > Item Core Data.
    Result: The Attributes tab is displayed with all the onboarded attribute values.
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Syndicate Assets from Syndication to PIM

The application provides the feature of syndicating assets such as images, documents, audios, and videos along with the product data from Syndication to PIM.

Syndicate Image(s) from Syndication

Scenario: Let us consider a scenario where we are syndicating an image from Syndication to PIM.

  1. Select the required image associated with a product. Here, Chicken Breast.jpg is our required image.
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  2. Click PUBLISH.
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    Result: The image is syndicated to PIM.

View Syndicated Image(s) in PIM

To view the syndicated image in PIM, perform the following:

  1. To search for a required entity using GTIN, refer to the steps 1-4 in View Onboarded Product in PIM.

  2. Click Assets > Images.
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    Result: The required image is displayed in PIM.
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Note:

The App also supports syndicating images associated with packaging hierarchy.

Batch Processing Method to Download Large Assets in PIM

The App supports batch processing method to download large amount of digital assets and data in PIM. This reduces the overall time required for the inbound flow and improves system performance. It is achieved when the assetDownloadFromAPI flag is set to true. For more information, see Product Import Base Profile.

Note:

By default, the value of the assetDownloadFromAPI flag is set to false.

Result: In the Child Tasks Related Tasks tab of the Task Details page, the Task Type is displayed as BULK_LOAD when the flag is true. A sample screenshot is displayed.
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In the Child Tasks Related Tasks tab of the Task Details page, the Task Type is displayed as Digital Asset Import when the flag is set to false. A sample screenshot is displayed.
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