Fundamental Product Data Steps Merchants Must Take to Get Their Product Data eComm Ready

On-demand webinar for builders’ merchants and distributors – hosted by Pimberly with Open Range, the specialist consultancy arm focused on supplier product data.

If supplier data arrives in spreadsheets, PDFs and inconsistent formats, eCommerce becomes a manual grind: chasing missing attributes, reworking the same data for different channels, and delaying new range launches.

This session breaks down the practical steps to turn messy supplier inputs into data you can trust across every sales channel.

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Watch: Get Building Materials Product Data eCommerce-Ready

In this webinar, we cover the repeatable process merchants use to improve upstream supplier data quality, automate ingestion into a single source of truth, and enforce standards without slowing speed to market.

What You’ll Learn

By watching this webinar, you’ll gain insights on:

  • How to align suppliers early so data quality becomes a shared commercial priority
  • What “non-negotiable” attributes to push for upfront (including technical specs and compliance data)
  • How to automate supplier data into a PIM to reduce errors and manual rework
  • How to enforce standards and validation so every SKU is ready to sell online by default
  • How to maintain supplier relationships so updates flow consistently (without constant chasing)

Featuring:

Sam Crimes

Customer Success Manager at Pimberly, helping builders’ merchants and distributors get maximum value from their PIM.

Nick Watts

Head of Data at Open Range, specialising in improving supplier data collection and standardisation for merchants.

Alex McConnell

Product Marketing Manager at Pimberly, host of this webinar on getting product data eCommerce-ready.

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Five Steps to Making Building Materials Product Data eCommerce-Ready

This step-by-step guide is designed to help you implement the webinar insights immediately. Use it to map your current process, define what “good” looks like for your data, and create a repeatable supplier-to-PIM workflow your team can actually run.

What’s inside:

  • A clear 5-step sequence you can follow in order
  • Practical prompts to set supplier expectations and request the right attributes upfront
  • Guidance to standardise and validate data before it hits channels (to reduce rework)
  • A simple approach to keep supplier updates flowing so content stays accurate over time
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Book a Demo: Make Supplier Product Data Work for You

Building materials merchants don’t just need new technology – they need the capability to manage complex product data at scale.

Pimberly provides the single source of truth for product data; Open Range helps improve how supplier information is collected and curated, making processes as automatic as possible while transferring the skills and best practices needed to stay self-sufficient.

Book a joint demonstration to see how messy supplier data can be structured, validated, and made ready for modern sales channels.