Create a reliable product data backbone for sales, distribution, and digital commerce.
Product data consists of many information fields such as identity, description, classification, dimensions, weight, packaging, logistics, pricing, taxes, regulations, and digital content. Incomplete or inconsistent product data can lead to quotation errors, incorrect shipments, billing problems, and damage to customer trust.
Minerva manages product data with centralized ownership, quality standards, approval processes, and validity dates. Product information can be used by sales, warehousing, logistics, production, finance, and digital channels under the same fundamental identity.
Product data scope
Product codes, GTINs, and alternative identifiers.
Name, description, brand, category, and multilingual content.
Hierarchies of measurement, weight, volume, and packaging.
Units of measurement for sales, inventory, purchases, and shipments.
Tax, accounting, and pricing classifications
Storage, transportation, shelf life, and special handling conditions.
Origin, certification, sustainability and compliance information.
Substitute, alternative, complementary, and substitute product relationships.
Lifecycle, version, validity, and usage status.
Be prepared for standards and new information requirements.
GS1 standards for identification, classification, logistics unit, and product data sharing support interoperability among commercial parties. Emerging applications, such as digital product passports, may require a more structured management of product material, maintenance, repair, environmental, and lifecycle information.
Manage product data not as a one-time, static record, but as an organizational entity with assigned responsibilities, quality controls, and a lifecycle.