Vendor Portal

Pimberly’s Vendor Portal is for retailers, distributors and manufacturers who manage product data from suppliers. It ensures that suppliers upload product data in a pre-specified format to a dedicated portal. This data can then be reviewed and validated prior to publishing to sales channels.

This addition to the Pimberly functionality solves the challenge of manually uploading vast amounts of varying product data, in multiple formats, from a range of sources.  It drives business growth through quicker time to market, ease of product range expansion, and increased online conversion from improved product data.

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Boost productivity

Speed time to market

Drive growth

Create consistency

Who can use Vendor Portal?

Distributors have many vendors/suppliers who provide product data in their own unique methods and formats. It’s not unlikely for a distributor to have up to 500 vendors/suppliers providing multiple product categories. Which creates a significant challenge when onboarding and validating into a single database. Vendor Portal enables suppliers to self-serve through an easy-to-use, pre–validated, and efficient portal that allows the upload of millions of SKUs onto the Pimberly platform.  

Manufacturers require product data on the raw materials/components they will use to produce their finished goods. So Vendor Portal enables suppliers of these raw materials to upload the product data in an efficient and controlled way. Importantly, this means Pimberly customers provide in-depth specifications about their product and its constituents. It also allows complete product material transparency, critical for showcasing sustainability credentials. 

For Retailers, ensuring that product data is comprehensive, complete, and compelling is crucial. Furthermore, having the ability to onboard new products/product categories in an efficient and frictionless way delivers a significant competitive edge and accelerates time to market. So, Pimberly’s Vendor Connect allows your suppliers or internal teams to self-serve through an easy-to-use, pre-validated, and efficient portal. See the upload of millions of SKUs onto the Pimberly platform, effortlessly. 

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Vendor Portal Benefits:

Drive Growth through an expanded product range

With Vendor Portal you can onboard more product ranges quickly, removing the need for manual processes. So, by having this feature in place, you won’t need to plough additional time and manpower into getting your product data right. Instead, provide your team with a powerful tool to increase efficiencies across the board. Furthermore, you allow your vendors/suppliers to upload more products for you to browse/review.

Accelerate time to market

Give vendors/suppliers an easy-to-use and powerful tool to onboard new product lines in a validated format. With Vendor Portal, you minimize the time it takes to get the base product data. Freeing up users’ time to enrich impactful product descriptions and assets. As a result, this sets your products apart from their competition and drives your conversion rates.

Furthermore, as validation occurs almost immediately, publishing products to sales channels happens in a matter of minutes. In addition, you can also use product enrichment requests to quickly change and enrich product data, automatically. 

Confidence in the quality of your product data 

  • Validate your product data through the whole product journey, ensuring complete brand consistency. 
  • As products travel downstream, important product specifications often go missing. Therefore, having a straight connection to your vendors/suppliers gives you confidence the product data is accurate. Never worry about bad-quality data again! 
  • Drive out inefficiencies in the supply chain caused by duplication and manual tasks that are prone to error.

Grow and improve vendor relationships

  • Reduce labor time between parties by providing automatic validation when onboarding new products.
  • Access validation reports immediately to understand issues suppliers are having with uploading their product data. These validation reports make it easy to reach out and help rectify the issue, quickly.
  • Use Vendor Portal internally to assist suppliers who do not have the capability to create Product Data Templates (PDTs). Keep scrolling to find out more on how PDTs work.

Reduce operating costs and increase efficiencies

  • Give the responsibility in providing product data in the format you need it to your vendors/suppliers.  
  • By passing adherence of product data validation to vendors/suppliers means you are reducing time spent on data.
  • Fewer back-and-forth exchanges with emails and spreadsheets. In other words, Vendor Portals collaboration features ensure requests have been complete. If not, you’re able any questions your vendor may have at the click of a button!

Validate

Any validation and/or data sets defined in the Pimberly customers account are pulled into the Vendor Portal, removing the need to duplicate work. In other words, Pimberly customers then add further validation per attribute to truly define the product data that will be coming in, increasing efficiency of handling the data. Then, once the PDT is uploaded by the vendor/supplier, the system will recheck the validation set out in the steps above. However, if the product data submitted does not meet the criteria as set by you, it is flagged.  

Enrich

Ensure that your product data is always of the best quality by requesting product enrichment for your products. For example, when creating a product enrichment request,  select the products and specify the products you wish to enrich. Consequently, this generates a pre-populated PDT which is then used by your vendors to change the product data that you have defined. Moreover, be lazer precise about the attributes that need enriching and who they get sent to, saving time for both you and your vendor.

 

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See it in action!

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How does it work?

A Product Data Template (PDT) is a data structure defining the properties that describe a product. To clarify, they are often Excel Spreadsheets, used widely across various sectors to provide accurate information about a product.  Ultimately, Product Data Templates quickly become extremely overcomplex and often require a lot of maintenance.  

With Pimberly’s Vendor Portal module, automate the entire process surrounding Product Data Templates. For example, with the PDT feature in Vendor Portal, manage all Product Data Templates in one place. In other words, doing so helps create bespoke PDT for various audiences. This also means product data upload, and validation happens in real-time.

PDTs allow Pimberly customers to control exactly what product data, and in what format, they receive. Here, a Pimberly customer can specify scope and locale as well as generate unique PDTs per vendor/supplier to allow the Pimberly Customer to get a blend of product data. 

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Pricing: Vendor Portal

Pimberly grows with your business, and we have tiers to suit your needs with prices that are incremental to your platform fee. The details can be found here.

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  • Regular
  • $7,500
    per year
  • Pro
  • $15,000
    per year
  • Corporate
  • $22,500
    per year
  • Enterprise
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  • Regular
  • £6,000
    per year
  • Pro
  • £12,000
    per year
  • Corporate
  • £18,000
    per year
  • Enterprise
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  • Regular
  • €7,000
    per year
  • Pro
  • €14,000
    per year
  • Corporate
  • €21,000
    per year
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