Product Information Management System

Our task was to build a product information management system. It was aimed to support all of the client’s stores and ease managers’ work with assortment. The features of PIM had to cover product, category, and campaign management.

We’ve successfully designed a PIM that meets all these needs. By using the system, HFN managers can manage products and group them into campaigns according to season, supplier, or manufacturer.

They also can add product properties and sort products based on two types of categories: master and public. Master categories are used by managers while public categories are client-side and ease website navigation.

In addition to product categorization, we added the feature of advanced search. The team can generate product datasets by filtering products by property, attribute, category, etc. The custom product list is easy to download, edit, and upload back to the system.

We’ve also added the functions of data import and export. To add a new product to the system, managers should import the file with new data. The system processes it and automatically updates the assortment.

The features of data import and export are also used in price management. Whenever managers update prices, the file with price changes is uploaded, automatically transformed into the readable format for PIM, and added to the database.

Then, the price data is extracted, and prices are updated requiring no manual effort from the client’s team. This feature prevents errors in price management and reduces the time needed for manual calculations and data updates.

A history log is another important part of the PIM software functionality. In the PIM system we built for HFN, the client can see the changes introduced at a certain time and by a certain user. Having this functionality helps to track work progress and prevent errors.