PIM for Builders’ Merchants

Turn Supplier Data Chaos into Clear, Consistent Product Information

When product data is consistent across web and branches, customers trust what they see. Pimberly centralises and enriches supplier data, helping merchants improve online sales while reducing counter-side confusion and returns.

It’s Time to Fix Poor Product Data for Builders’ Merchants

Building Product Data is Complex and Inconsistent

Managing data from many suppliers is challenging for merchants, especially when linking kits, bundles, and size variants across systems. Inconsistent formats and measurements force rework and lead to errors across web listings, branch systems, and printed trade materials.

Time to Onboard and Update Products is slow

Merchants lose significant revenue from products sitting offline because data isn’t validated or complete. Retailers need to launch online listings within hours, not weeks. Manual uploads and fragmented workflows stop them from diversifying into new product lines.

Incomplete Data Risks Non-Compliance

Failing to comply with standards like CCPI risks fines and loss of trust with customers. Without validation of structured data from suppliers, keeping product data compliant and up-to-date across sales channels and in-branch is a slow, unreliable and labour-intensive process.

Why Builders’ Merchants Need Pimberly

  • One source for every SKU

  • Onboard new product ranges fast

  • Deliver accurate specs at the trade counter

  • eliminate pricing and attribute errors

  • Expand into new product categories easily

  • Boost conversions and reduce returns

  • Unlock new markets with ease

  • Auto publish to ecommerce and branches

  • scale ranges without extra effort

  • CCPI and DPP compliance sorted

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“Pimberly has enabled us to free up our resources and spend more time on other areas of the business. Without Pimberly, we just wouldn’t have been able to do this.”

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“With Pimberly centrally managing all of our product information, we were easily able to launch a new IronmongeryDirect website in half the time we expected.”

improvement in data completeness

“Pimberly has allowed us to really take control of our product data, making sure it’s accurate and structured properly for all our digital channels… Pimberly ticked so many of our boxes.

Builders' Merchants Trust Pimberly

Bring All Supplier Data and Assets into One Structured Construction Product Hub

Builders’ merchants juggle feeds from hundreds of manufacturers, each with inconsistent formats and completeness. Errors slip into ERP, web, and branch systems.

Pimberly centralises and standardises supplier data and assets, streamlining onboarding, cutting manual collation, and delivering one approved source for eCommerce, depots, and trade customers from the same, trusted product record.

  • Import and map multi-supplier feeds in one place
  • Reduce time spent fixing errors and reuploading data
  • Normalise attributes, taxonomy, and terminology at scale
  • Publish approved data to web, EPOS, and branches

Expand Product Ranges and Become the Builder’s One-Stop Shop

There’s a growing opportunity for builders’ merchants to offer more product lines and capture a greater share of customer spend. As trades and contractors seek a single supplier for all their project needs, merchants can grow loyalty and revenue by expanding into new categories.

Pimberly makes it easy to add new product lines without code changes or complex projects. Merchants can onboard suppliers, standardise data, and publish new categories fast – opening up fresh opportunities to diversify ranges and drive higher margins.

  • Add new product categories quickly with no technical effort
  • Onboard supplier data in any format using automation
  • Scale product ranges without increasing admin or costs
  • Strengthen loyalty by offering everything builders need in one place
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Standardise Complex Supplier Catalogues Instantly and at Scale

Merchants manage vast ranges of disparate product types, all with variations across size, grade, finish, and compliance. Manual clean-up and enrichment delays listings, frustrating branches and customers.

Pimberly standardises complex supplier catalogues instantly with automated data normalisation and transformation rules, saving hours of manual formatting and ensuring every product is ready to sell. Maintain clean, consumer-ready catalogues across every channel with automated updates and workflows so your online listings always reflect the latest, most accurate product information.

  • Bulk enrichment for technical specs and attributes
  • Consistent naming across categories and suppliers
  • Accelerated onboarding and reduced time to market for new lines

Automatically Connect Related and Complementary Construction Products

Supplier data often lacks links between compatible parts, alternatives, and accessories, hurting add-on sales and increasing the risk of returns.

Pimberly automatically connects related and complementary products, improving cross-sell and upsell opportunities while ensuring compatibility and accuracy across your catalogue. Display fully connected product experiences online with dynamic relationships that make it easy for shoppers to find variants, accessories, and bundles, boosting conversion and satisfaction.

  • Link fixings, consumables, variants, and replacements
  • Surface compatible and recommended components on PDPs
  • Create families and construction system groupings

Create On-Brand Catalogues, Data Sheets, and Branch Documentation

Branches and trade customers need current, branded documentation. Manual production is slow and outdated quickly.

Pimberly generates on-brand catalogues, data sheets, and brochures in bulk using live product data, ensuring every asset is accurate, complete, and ready for market without manual rework. Deliver polished, accurate product content across all channels, from online listings to printed leaflets, with automated templates that auto-update to keep every touchpoint current and consistent.

  • Auto-generate trade-ready sheets and branch collateral
  • Keep documents synced with live product data
  • Tailor outputs by branch, region, or customer segment

Standardise and Validate Supplier Data at the Source

Poor supplier data triggers repicks, returns, lost confidence, and risks undermining CCPI compliance.

Pimberly’s Vendor Portal standardises and validates supplier data at entry, ensuring only accurate product information that supports CCPI compliance enters your systems and reaches every customer. Maintain data accuracy across listings and channels using automated validation and audit trails, reducing fulfilment issues, customer complaints, and compliance-related overall risk.

  • Enforce completeness and CCPI compliance requirements
  • Block incorrect or non-compliant data from ERP
  • Reduce branch support, corrections, and compliance errors

Pimberly + Data Yard

As the construction sector adapts to stricter data and compliance requirements under the Building Safety Act and CCPI, Data Yard provides builders merchants with a single source of accurate, compliant, consistently structured product data using the industry-defined Product Standardisation Template.

Pimberly is an active member of the BMF Product Data Standardisation Committee, helping shape and uphold these standards to ensure high-quality product data across the supply chain.

Pimberly allows merchants to automatically import complete, accurate and compliant product data from Data Yard:

  • Save time and ensure up-to-date data with automated, compliant Data Yard imports
  • Rapidly expand and diversify product ranges to unlimited channels
  • Optimise every sales channel with enriched, AI-powered product versions and collateral

Insights for Builders’ Merchants

In this blog post, explore the reasons why poor product data is holding builders’ merchants back, and why they must pay close attention to the quality of product information to reduce compliance risk and maximise sales.

Alex Phipps (Construction Account Executive at Pimberly) explores the pitfalls of spreadsheets and manual processes, the impact of poor data on product launches and customer trust, and how businesses can get ahead.

The Build North 2025 survey reveals deep-rooted challenges around product data management in the building materials sector. In this report, Pimberly experts weigh in on vital next steps for businesses.

Book a demo: Take Control of your Product Data

Pimberly is trusted by leading builders’ merchants and construction retailers to cut time-to-market, stay compliant, and unlock new revenue streams. Let’s show you how:

  • Centralise and standardise supplier product data in one place
  • Improve data accuracy for compliance, safety, and CCPI readiness
  • Enrich product content to drive better online and in-branch sales
  • Reduce manual workload and speed up time-to-market for new products