Self-Service Product Information

The self-service Product Information Management (PIM) interface project has grown out of our Supplier partners' requests to provide product data proactively to achieve faster speed to market for new item introductions, and a clearer process for maintaining and enriching existing SKUs. Suppliers will be able to access self-service PIM from the MSC supplier portal to benefit from increased transparency throughout the product data management process. Self-service PIM is just one of the PIM enhancements MSC is focused on, along with enhanced taxonomies and expanded specification fields.

Matt Kemberling, Sr Mgr, Product Information says, "Self Service PIM will not replace the conversations and valuable connections we have with our Supplier partners. Instead, it will free up our time to focus on growing our business together."

MSC will roll out invitations to the self-service PIM interface starting with a few Suppliers as a test case, and then make improvements to incrementally onboard additional Supplier partners during fiscal year 2022, which begins in September 2021.