PIONEERING PRODUCT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Viamedici EPIM: Hauff-Technik’s Innovative PIM Solution for Optimal Data Integration
Seamless SAP integration and quality optimization with Hauff-Technik’s Viamedici EPIM.
PIONEERING PRODUCT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Seamless SAP integration and quality optimization with Hauff-Technik’s Viamedici EPIM.
The Company: Hauff-Technik
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Hauff-Technik is one of the leading European manufacturers of sealing systems for cables, pipes, and building entries. The developed sealing systems provide protection for buildings against water, gas, fire, dirt, and pests. They promise complete sealing, economic efficiency, user-friendliness, and durability for a variety of structures, from single-family homes to diverse construction projects to extensive infrastructure projects like airports and power plants. The customer portfolio includes energy suppliers, municipal utilities, construction companies, installation firms, telecommunications companies, and industrial enterprises. Hauff-Technik is also represented in the assortment of numerous building materials and civil engineering dealers. Architects, planners, and private builders rely on proven experience and expertise and find in the wide range of products or in custom-made special designs the ideal solution for their specific requirements.
Challenge
Hauff-Technik needed a solution for the central and efficient management of product information as well as real-time data synchronization to improve data quality and communication across all channels.
Consulting Approach
valantic conducted tailor-made workshops to develop a customized solution for Hauff-Technik, focusing intensively on the company’s specific requirements.
Customer Benefit and Solution
The PIM system enables Hauff-Technik to achieve increased efficiency.through automation, improved data quality, faster market launches, and more flexible data management, supporting expanded reach and international market presence.
The challenge at Hauff-Technik was to achieve central management and optimization of product information to ensure efficient, consistent, and high-quality data delivery across all relevant channels. Real-time synchronization of master data, automation of print publishing processes, generation of data sheets, optimization of processes and workflows, standardized delivery of data to dealers and portals, improvement of data quality, multilingual translation management, and efficient asset management in the integrated Digital Asset Management (DAM) system were required.
Consulting Approach
valantic followed a collaborative consulting approach by discussing key issues in successive workshops to define a tailored approach for Hauff-Technik. The focal points were discussed intensively, and solutions were developed for various challenges such as data modeling, print automation, ERP and website integration through import/export and REST API interfaces.
Andreas Schork
Project Manager PIM / Product Management, Hauff-Technik
”The central topics for us were discussed intensively in consecutive workshop appointments and a suitable procedure was defined for Hauff-Technik. I was most impressed by the excellent support from the valantic team during the entire PIM implementation as well as the high level of expertise of the individual contact persons for the various topics such as data modelling, print automation, ERP and website connection via import/export and REST API interfaces.“
The introduction of the PIM system brought Hauff-Technik numerous benefits
Automation and Centralization
Increased efficiency through automation and centralized data management.
Data Quality
Improved data quality through consistent and controlled data maintenance.
Error Reduction
Reduction of errors through automated processes and updates.
Accelerated Market Introduction
Faster market introduction of product information through optimized workflows.
Flexibility through Connection
Increased flexibility through bidirectional connection to SAP and other systems.
Standardized Product Information
Expanded reach through standardized delivery of product information to dealers and portals.
International Market Presence
Improved international market presence through multilingual data management and delivery.
Integrated Media Management
Efficient media management through the integrated DAM system, which facilitates the assignment and use of digital assets.
The long-term vision is to continuously improve internal and external product communication and establish flexible data management that enables Hauff-Technik to dynamically respond to market changes.
