PIES

Automotive Aftermarket Offering

Product Information Exchange Standard (PIES) is the aftermarket industry for the management of Part information by utilizing multiple related databases, which contains specific classifications, related attributes, brands, and other related data. It reduces the complexity of data, eliminates the duplicate work, reduces supply chain costs, increases product introduction and speed to the market.

The application offers Automotive Aftermarket Offering – PIES app that focuses on establishing the single source of truth, of the product-specific data that are shared with channel partners while adhering to the auto care standards. It is designed to allow an enterprise to instantaneously use this offering and cover the most common challenges of the automotive industries. The offerings are built to manage part information and can be leveraged to accomplish the business needs and achieve better business productivity.

PIES app is an out-of-the-box solution to manage the Part information lifecycle. PIES app provides schema of a machine-readable format (XML) for customers to exchange the automotive data while adhering to industry standards. It helps to review vendor's part information with minimal effort and lesser time. It allows vendors or suppliers to manage the automotive data and assets by providing the ability to import of PIES XML files. It provides the flexibility to map the part information with corresponding databases and evaluate every part record.

PIES Database Components

PIES has database components such as Product Classification Data Base (PCdb), Product Attributes Data Base (PAdb), Product Classification and Attributes Data Base (PCAdb), and Brand database defined by Auto Care industry.

• PCdb provides the part information such as Part terminology, Classification information, and so on, which are pre-defined by Auto Care industry.
• PAdb provides information of classification attributes for the specific part type or classification.
• Brand database includes list of the brands defined as part of the auto care industry.
• PCAdb provides information related to both classification.

All the databases get updated during each release.

The PIES 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 the product information
• Reduce the time to market for products
• Reduce errors in the parts management
• Faster parts onboarding

Targeted Audience

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

In This Article

This article covers the following information:

• Getting Started
• Business User's Documentation
• System Administration Documentation

App Details

The below table provides you the App details: