Publisher

The PIM system for the furniture industry

The bpi Publisher is the leading product management system in the furniture industry for the fast and automated creation of all sales documents and the provision of data via a wide variety of distribution channels. The bpi Publisher gives you the opportunity to provide your trading partners with the right information in a timely manner. Individually negotiated assortments, conditions and languages are considered.

Easy maintenance and error-minimized publishing will drive your business forward!

Trust the experienced professionals at bpi solutions – Optimize your digital processes in multi-channel!

Efficient product data management is the basis for success. Uniform data storage and intelligent output always ensure an up-to-date e-commerce connection, automated catalogue and print production, as well as a smooth provision of product and price information for the furniture trade.

Together with the professionals at bpi solutions, you will achieve your goal.

Enthusiasm has a name – publisher.

How does it work?

The publisher makes it easy for you to extract maximum value from the imported master data of your ERP systems. Easily enrich your master data with additional information, such as product descriptions and media, and dimension them according to output channel and language. This means that your product data is complete and available for all sales channels. By categorising by function or product range, you only maintain relevant data and thus realize efficient data management.

Perfect functions for sales and marketing

  • Smart management and maintenance of data at all product levels such as models, articles, variant types (material characteristics) and variants (characteristics).

  • Any product descriptions and features such as dimensions can be maintained and assigned at all levels.

  • Comprehensive arranging of digital media data at all product levels.

  • Unrestricted classification features with inheritance options.
  • Easy management and assignment of any media data such as videos, images, pictograms and PDF documents on all product levels such as models, articles and variants.

  • Classification of media data for digital rejection.

  • Interfaces to various media databases.
  • Simple condition management at all sales levels such as country, association, parent company, branch, customer group and product levels such as models, articles and variants.

  • Carry out intuitive and flexible price increases globally and individually, considering different price durations. The price history is displayed and can be evaluated at any time.

  • Define arbitrary pricing such as gross, net and net/net with freely configurable pricing logics.

  • Automatic comparison of conditions with the ERP system.
  • Management of association and house assortments incl. agreed exclusivities.

  • Creation of individual offer and assortment sheets for associations and customers.

  • Consideration of conditions and assortment agreements.

  • Flexible control of individual Excel templates.
  • Export of assortment data into any Excel templates of the respective shop providers.

  • Consideration of classification characteristics for e-commerce.

  • Updating and synchronising product data and media with the content management system (CMS) for your own websites.

  • Support for a wide range of interfaces.
  • Control of InDesign for the creation of print documents, such as product catalogues, brochures, flyers and price and type lists.

  • Any language can be considered for multilingual documentation.

  • Define any template in InDesign with complete graphic design freedom.

  • Creation of digital documents, as well as the realization of the entire prepress.
  • Foreign language module with individual translation tables.

  • Consistently Unicode-capable and thus any language can be mapped.

  • Interfaces to external translation agencies.

  • Translation cost savings of up to 75%.
  • Extended module in the CRM system Sales Performer for field service.

  • Make digital documents such as product flyers, brochures, price lists and media data available for field service via the PIM system on all mobile devices.

  • The sales force always presents with up-to-date and valid product documentation.
  • Conversion of the created data into the ScanPrix format.

  • Provision of PDF price lists with the bpi PDF parser for individual calculation at the POS.

  • Interfaces to planning systems such as XcalibuR (also IDM format) and

  • Import/export of data to/from any system.

Expertengespräch / Expert discussion

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Your contact persons:

Michael Wilke

Leitung Vertrieb Möbelbranche

Senior Sales Manager

MWilke@bpi-solutions.de+49 521 9401 165

Christian Hayk

Vertrieb

Senior Sales Manager

CHayk@bpi-solutions.de+49 521 9401 149

Marcus Schalk

Leitung BPM & DMS

Senior Sales Manager

MSchalk@bpi-solutions.de+49 521 9401 137

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