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Managing sales return rates

As business builds, more customers means more returns on your sales. While many retailers view high returns as a necessary evil, current rates (40% rise in North America in 2021 vs. 2020) are unsustainable. To take just one example from the fashion industry, approximately one truckload of clothing is sent to landfill every second, with returned stock making up a significant portion. According to returns management platform Optoro, just 50% of returns go back into inventory.

Product Roadmap, Releases and Supported Versions

Detailed information about releases of Pimics and what Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premise) version we support. In general, we follow the Modern Lifecycle Policy and release cycle of Microsoft, so every year two main releases of Pimics for all Business Centrals Versions in the current lifecycle.

Selling on Amazon

Depending on your business model and the products you sell, Amazon can be the fast path to the market that your business was lacking. But partnering with Amazon also comes with its own challenges, not least of which is to have your product information organised spot-on. And a few other things too.

Shopify integration: pre-release introduction

As many will know, Shopify integration is part of Business Central since version 20.1. So, it has been discussed quite a lot in the Microsoft world. We've made also few experiences with it and now the question is how we can be involved in it with Pimics because one of the targets in e-Commerce is to bring a better customer experience to increase the sales.

Taxonomy: your most important hierarchy

The EU Parliament recently voted on a proposal about labeling natural gas and nuclear power as climate-friendly and including them in the 'EU taxonomy'. Is it a good idea? Or maybe not? The good thing for us is that this is not our primary business. Our primary business could however require us to to talk about product taxonomy because this really concerns companies that sell online. And for them, taxonomy is a very important topic.

Pimics DAM on SharePoint

During calls with potential customers we have been asked how we work with files and what are the possibilities of Pimics in this respect. Well, our first suggestion when a company uses the cloud version of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is to use SharePoint for file-level digital assets. Let's take a look on the most common scenarios supported by Pimics.

6 questions to ask during a PIM demo

After dealing with the usual pains that growing companies face, you finally decided that it is time for you to take things to the next level and start using a PIM. You made a research on available PIM solutions and now have a shortlist. The next step? Booking a demo for each of them, to see with your own eyes what they look like, how they work and, most importantly, how they can best serve your company's purposes. What would be the most important topics to discuss with a PIM specialist, to make sure you have all your bases covered? Let's find out.

5 ways how Pimics transforms what you can do with your ERP

For any organization that uses this type of software, ERP is a central part of that organization's life and a core component of its digital stack, that the business depends upon. It makes sense then, for companies where product data plays a big role, to imagine the management of this data within their ERP that already covers the core of their business.

How PIM helps improve time-to-market

It's a fact: early market entrants enjoy clear advantages in terms of market share, revenue and sales growth. Time-to-market is the metric which helps evaluate the success of a company based on how fast it brings its products to the market. The shorter this metric is for a particular project or product range, the better results the company gets. Can PIM help? Let's find out.

Making the case for PIM-in-ERP

There's no doubt that ERP plays a critical role within a company, as a tool for managing internal business data. Moreover, this is the kind of software that an organization commits to for many years. But what about PIM? Do you need both ERP and PIM? Does it make sense to add PIM with your new ERP implementation? How will they work together? Can PIM work from WITHIN the ERP?

PIM - a crucial link in P2C management

As markets gain in complexity and the shopper can be reached in more places using ever more instruments, a new concept is emerging to sum up sellers’ efforts to take control of this whole process of showing their products in the best possible light, in the largest number of windows to the largest number of people: Product-to-Consumer or in short P2C. We briefly explore PIM's role in this context.

Service To Service Authentication

Microsoft finally introduces S2S authentication. The impact of this change will be huge for all integrations because later on the basic authentication will disappear. It is a welcome step as well, as this is the right way to make integrations between Business Central/Pimics and other applications. It also make things easier when using OAuth2.0 with an user account in Business Central. This article will describe how to set it up.

Is it really PIM vs. CMS?

CMS and PIM are only comparable for a narrow category of use cases, where product range is limited and product feature complexity is low. If product range size and product feature complexity will surpass a certain threshold, then the CMS stops being an alternative to PIM, and PIM becomes a must-have for properly managing your product data.

DAM makes PIM better

Pimics gives you all the tools you need for managing your product data inside your Microsoft Dynamics ERP, be it NAV or Business Central. This includes digital asset management (DAM) as a crucial component for enriching your product data. Yes, digital assets like product pictures, videos, or data sheets can now be managed directly from inside your ERP thanks to Pimics.

The dropshipping business: how Pimics can help

Have you ever thought about embracing the dropshipping business? How hard can it be to build a website and have others stock and ship the goods you sell online? Well, maybe the headache and the financial burden of storing and moving the physical items will be gone, but you still have to make the effort of building a comprehensive product catalogue, with a wealth of information about the stuff that you want to sell.

The BMECat advantage of Pimics

One of the most effective ways that you can populate your sales catalogue with product data using a PIM, is to employ standardized catalogue formats such as BMEcat or DataNorm, and standardized classification systems such as ETIM. Pimics supports all the mentioned formats plus others, allowing you great flexibility in effectively using data sources to your advantage while minimising manual intervention in the process of enriching the product data for the items that you sell.

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