Onetrail TPNTM Product Data Services receives product data from trade partners and cleans, normalizes, and structures the data to make it consistent and usable. The service delivers updated product content daily with complete weekly files. It also provides real-time checking of stock levels and purchase prices. Cleaned data is stored in the Onetrail TPNTM Product Data Store and includes identifiers, classifications, and enriched commercial information. Customers can download structured data files in their preferred format through the Onetrail TPNTM Product Content Download service.
1. Onetrail TPN™ Product Data Services
Correct and up-to-date product data is at the core of every trade-related process. Sales, purchasing,
finance and logistics all benefit from data consistency.
For all good reasons the trade channel does not use the original coding, description etc. as provided
by the manufacturer (Seller). Even the manufacturer (Seller) itself may have problems delivering
unique and consistent data as a result of take-overs, international sales structures or globally spread
production facilities.
Product data, as delivered by the trade channel partners in the form of price lists or sales data, is
therefore not usable. The data needs to be cleaned, normalized and structured before it can be
imported and used in internal systems.
Onetrail Trading Partner Network™ (TPN) receives the data on your behalf, performs all required
tasks to clean, normalize and structure the data and delivers the data to you in One Single Format.
Ready to use!
Product Data Exchange
The following product related messaging services are available:
Onetrail TPN™ Product Content Download
Clean, normalized and structured product data is available in the Onetrail TPN™ Product Data Store,
which can be downloaded in One Single Format, the one you feel works best. Our standard process
generates updates with all changes during the week. Once a week we provide a complete file to make
sure you stay in sync.
Product Data can be delivered including your net purchase prices from the various Sellers
(distributors) you have a relationship with.
Stock updates can be delivered on an hourly basis with a complete nightly update.
2. Onetrail TPN™ Real time Price & Availability
Stock levels may change every second. Correct and up-to-date information on stock levels available at
your Sellers (suppliers) is key to eliminate defects from the sales and purchasing processes. The
Onetrail TPN™ Product Data Services includes a real-time check on both stock and purchase price,
so that your employees and processes can rely on the correct information.
Rich Content
The Onetrail TPN™ Product Data Services include all basic product data like product codes, short-
and long description, classification etc.. In order to enrich this data with commercial product
information, for example to support online sales (e.g. web shop), Onetrail established a partnership
with content providers delivering this information in harmonized format. From pictures to commercial
text, product specifications, up- and cross-sell information to related item data.
Onetrail TPN™ Product Data Store
Our Product Data Management (PDM) activities clean up, normalize and structure the incoming
product data, which results in an up-to-date database with all products available in the Onetrail TPN™
Product Data Store.
Onetrail PDM experts monitor the content throughout the day to ensure the data quality. The following
core tasks are executed by the Onetrail PDM processes:
Identification/Normalization
Generating unique identifiers for products, brands and suppliers. Onetrail uses the original
OEM/manufacturer part code as the key and ensures individual Seller (supplier) data is linked to this
code. This way you can build a reliable structure within your own system so that both the product and
all Sellers (suppliers) delivering the product are visible at a glance.
Classification
Generating normalized classification of products to support search and reporting processes. As a
basis Onetrail maintains UN/SPSC for IT & Telecom as well as a more basic classification method for
financial reporting purposes.
Want to know what Onetrail TPN™ Product Data Services can do for your company? Call our sales
department at +31 30 697 32 88 or fill in the contact form at www.onetrail.com/eng/contact/ and we
will contact you.