How Distributors Make the Business Case for PIM

Distributors are the essential bridge between manufacturers and customers, but today’s market demands have put immense pressure on traditional distribution models. Managing expansive product catalogs, ensuring data accuracy, and meeting digital-buyer expectations across multiple channels has become increasingly complex.

A modern Product Information Management (PIM) system centralizes product data, automates workflows, and empowers distribution teams to scale efficiently while reducing errors and costs.

In this whitepaper, you’ll learn how a PIM system delivers measurable returns by enabling distributors to:

Rapidly onboard suppliers and expand SKU offerings without overwhelming internal teams
Optimize data management with a single source of truth, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and real-time updates
Enhance customer experience and product discoverability with enriched, searchable data across all sales channels
Reduce manual errors, ensure regulatory compliance, and minimize stockouts through automated validation and dynamic inventory tracking
Achieve significant cost savings and efficiency gains, with up to a 90% ROI reported by distributors who implement PIM

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Understand PIM’s ROI for your distribution business

Overcome product data bottlenecks

Leverage industry-specific case studies

Plan a successful PIM implementation

Adopt best practices for modern distribution

How much faster can we onboard new SKUs with a PIM?

A PIM’s automated onboarding and AI-assisted classification can reduce product-entry time by 80–90%, letting you import thousands of SKUs in hours instead of weeks.

What kind of ROI can distributors realistically expect?

Industry benchmarks show distributors achieve up to a 90% return on investment by cutting manual work, reducing errors, and unlocking new revenue through expanded, enriched catalogs.

Will a PIM integrate with our existing ERP and eCommerce platforms?

Modern PIM solutions sync bi-directionally with ERPs (pricing, inventory, specs) and push updates in real time to Magento, Shopify, marketplaces, CRM systems, and more—ensuring a single source of truth across all channels.

Brands driving growth with Pimberly:

Distributors today struggle under the weight of sprawling SKU catalogs, siloed data systems, and ever-higher digital customer expectations. A modern PIM solution centralizes all product information, automates supplier onboarding, and enriches data to ensure consistent, accurate listings across every sales channel. Companies that adopt PIM report up to a 90% ROI by accelerating time-to-market, cutting manual errors, and uncovering new revenue streams. This whitepaper enables distributors to make the PIM business case crystal clear.

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