Managing item information within the company

The communication with customers, suppliers and partners often revolves around products. Information is often spread through product sheets, product labels, item information (GS1) from sources scattered within the company.  The information is stored in local systems in different departments and various in systems such as the ERP, PLM, Excel sheets etc.  Furthermore, several departments need to contribute to the information and confirm the correctness of the information before distribution. This makes it difficult to maintain consistency and quality of the information distributed.

The Accure way

Accure has developed the a3 Item Manager for managing product Item information throughout an entire organization. Fully integrated to Movex/ M3, the purpose of the a3.Item manager is to keep information about the products/ Items, in any format, available to all interested parties when and where needed. To enable secure creation/ Collection of information, it is possible to coordinate the company’s resources, by using workflow , roles and rules. All roles and workflows are set up in a3 Item manager and help the organization optimizing collection of product information and secure that it delivered within the right time frame. Rules are setup in order to verify that the information in the system is accurate.

The Item Manager is fully integrated into Smart office.