Effortless Compliance with Industry Standards

When exchanging product information with customers and business partners, manufacturers need to map and transform their product data to an appropriate data model — such as an industry standard — that can be easily interpreted by the receiving organization.

The ability to seamlessly share complete and high-quality data is critical to decrease time to market, streamline procurement processes and deliver excellent customer experiences.

Manufacturers can easily map and transform product information to comply with international classification systems. Stibo Systems’ master data management (MDM) platform features integral standard components to support the product information management (PIM) lifecycle, including:

Easy exchange of product data
International classifications
Data quality maintenance
Data transformation

Ensuring compliance using MDM

Different international classification systems provide standards for product data exchange. With MDM, manufacturers can simplify the process of achieving compliance with industry standards:

Supporting different data models

Exporting and receiving companies have different data models for the same products, meaning they don’t speak the same data language. While the industry standard provides a common language that is understood by the exporting and the receiving company, the data still must be translated.

Automating data mapping

To utilize the benefits of industry standards, data needs to be mapped and transformed (translated) in accordance with the standard. This process can, in principle, be solved manually, but the amount of data calls for an automated solution. Automated data mapping and transformation not only enhances operational efficiency but also improves data quality by eliminating error-prone manual work.

Facilitating data export

The exporting company needs to deliver the data in a standardized format, such as BMEcat, or exporting companies and receivers can exchange data via an integration point.

Manage product complexity using advanced data modeling

STEP supports the full journey of ECLASS ADVANCED data that includes a flexible and hierarchical property structure to describe highly complex products. This enables you to meet multiple customer and supplier demands and deliver digital twin data sets to support design, simulation, manufacturing and build of highly specialized industrial products.

Key benefits of using MDM for compliance with industry standards

The data transformation component is integral to STEP

No interface needed

No need for independent service providers

You own all knowledge and rules for data transformation

You have access to data quality capabilities to improve transformation rules and source data

Important industry standards supported by MDM

Manufacturing data flow

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STEP contains end-to-end data exchange capabilities to ensure compliance with industry standards:

STEP contains end-to-end data exchange capabilities to ensure compliance with industry standards:
Objectives	Strategies
Import/data acquisition	A built-in standard importer accepts a number of industry standard data models, such as ETIM, ECLASS, UNSPSC and GS1, including different versions.
Mapping and transformation Data modeling, enriching and validation	An auto-classification component automatically transforms the imported data using business rules and algorithms. When a proprietary data model needs to be mapped to the industry standard, it requires an initial manual mapping. Stibo Systems provides the functionality that enables you to perform data mapping.
Maintenance	When a product data value changes, the MDM updates the data model, ensuring it is always ready for export. This way, the data quality is maintained at all times, which improves the operational efficiency when data needs to be shared.
Export	STEP supports many export formats, such as BMEcat, GDSN, XML and APIs. See more export formats in the Connector Gallery.

Learn more about Stibo Systems and MDM can help your business.

Achieve Effortless Compliance with Industry Standards