Product information management

Key concepts

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  PIM - Key concept — censhare PIM stores product specifications, product descriptions, marketing text snippets and any other relevant information. With censhare PIM you can control the publishing of information in different channels, formats and languages, and exchange your product catalog with suppliers and retailers.
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  Feature inheritance - Key concept — Feature inheritance integrates data inherited over hierarchical asset structures into the target asset.
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  Product assets — The censhare PIM solution brings together product information for producers, suppliers, dealers and customers. Product assets display information for a product, relationships between products, articles and categories in an asset with pre-configured widgets.
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  Feature lookup - Key concept — Feature lookup rules dynamically display asset properties of a related asset on an asset page, without storing the data in the displayed asset. For example, on product pages that belong to a Product family, Product series, Product edition, or Product set.

Data model

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  Product text block titles — Product text block titles contain a text snippet that describes a product feature.
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  Product sets — Product sets are packaged products that are marketed and sold as a unit.
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  Product feature stories — Product feature stories contain a marketing-driven description of a product feature.
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  Product series — Product series represent a collection of products with similar quality characteristics.
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  Product text blocks — Product text blocks contain a text snippet that describes a product feature.
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  Product spare parts — Product spare parts represent individually sellable, vital components of product.
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  Product service sets — A product service set represents a package of product services that can be purchased together with one or multiple products.
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  Product services — A product service represents an additional service that can be purchased together with one or multiple products.
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  Product editions — Product editions represent products that were manufactured in the same production unit, made in the same batch, or supplied in the same shipment. Product editions are not part of the product classification.
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  Product warranties — A product warranty represents an additional warranty extension that can be purchased together with one or multiple products.
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  Product outputs — Product outputs are variations of a product for different regions, markets, or channels.
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  Product categories — Product categories create a hierarchical structure and a cascade of inherited features. The Product category tree can be built from scratch or with third-party product classifications.
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  Product parts — Product parts are physical units or components of a product.
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  Product items — A Product item represents an individual sellable item with a unique article number or order number.
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  Product item groups — A Product item group contains product items that vary in one single feature. Several product item groups build a matrix of product item variations of a product.

Setup guide

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  Custom product classification — A product classification consists of hierarchically organized product categories and product features that are assigned to these product categories. If a product is placed in a product category, it inherits all product features from the direct and indirect parent product categories.
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  Feature groups — With Feature groups , you can configure sections in the Display and Edit dialog of the Product properties widget.
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  Create output tables for online and print deliverables — With this recipe, you can reuse a table representation of various products or product items and their respective properties (for example technical specifications) in order to publish them in a print or web layout.
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  Configure Product item preview selection — In Product assets with Product items, you can customize the preview to show the varying features. Assign the product features in the Product item selection features widget. The Preview widget shows the different Product item features on Product pages.
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  Define product families — Product families in censhare PIM allow you to create groups of products that share some common characteristics, for instance concerning their technical specifications, target customer group, pricing concepts or advertisement strategies. This article explains the concept of "Product family" in censhare PIM and how you can work with product family assets, for example to create product flyers.
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  Ingest looked-up product features — Feature lookup rules dynamically display data on products that belong to a Product family, Product category, or are a Product variant.