Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
Retailers, consumer product goods (CPG) providers, and suppliers turn to Liaison for data cleansing, semantic parsing and up-to-the-minute accurate, consistent product data - to help drive more demand by executing effective new product introductions and promotions, to quickly on-board vendors and suppliers to bring more products to market faster, and to collaborate effectively with suppliers, with complete visibility across the entire value chain.
In fact, if we had to name one single industry that has contributed most to the widespread adoption of B2B and EDI integration, it would probably be the retail industry. A retailer's decision to embrace integration meant that the retailer's suppliers (often CPG suppliers) needed to embrace integration as well if they wanted to keep the retailer's business. Considering that the vast majority of large retailers have an EDI purchasing system in place, affecting thousands upon thousands of CPG manufacturers and suppliers, it's easy to see the impact these industries have had on integration across all facets of business.
Retailers, consumer product goods (CPG) providers, and suppliers turn to Liaison for data cleansing, semantic parsing and up-to-the-minute accurate, consistent product data - to help drive more demand by executing effective new product introductions and promotions, to quickly on-board vendors and suppliers to bring more products to market faster, and to collaborate effectively with suppliers, with complete visibility across the entire value chain.
Some of Liaison’s retail and CPG customers include ACE Hardware, Acushnet, Amazon.com, Best Buy, Burlington Coat Factory, Colgate-Palmolive, Federated Department Stores, Gottschalks, Hallmark, Home Depot, Hudson's Bay Co., JCPenney , Kmart, Musicland, Neiman Marcus, OfficeMax, PETsMART, Restoration Hardware, Sears, Target, Toys "R" Us, Walgreens, and Zellers.
Liaison’s Contivo is an innovative, patented and customer proven design-time semantic integration technology, that helps our CPG and retail customers reduce the risk, time, cost and effort of integration projects through the use of a centralized metadata repository. It helps capture, manage, organize and leverage all of the integration metadata in your enterprise and, by associating that metadata with a semantic "dictionary", establish an integration vocabulary and thesaurus. The vocabulary and thesaurus can be used to automate data transformation and reconciliation tasks that are traditionally implemented using manual mapping techniques.
Retailers have adopted the GS1 standard and are asking that their top suppliers share product data with them through the Global Data Sync Network (GDSN). Our affordable master data management services and GDSN compliance services help small, medium, and large suppliers take advantage of this global data pool, integrate and become preferred providers with large retailers.
The retail industry’s unique challenges deserve unique solutions. The seamless collaboration of our integration and data transformation services forms the backbone of our premiere Managed Services - creating value with focused and flexible business process service offerings tailored to the unique requirements of banks, insurers, and capital markets. Liaison brings best practices and real-world business-to-business (B2B) and application-to-application (A2A) business process expertise that enables our retail and CPG customers to reduce costs and become more agile and competitive.