From Days to Hours: Reducing Time-to-Market with Salsify PIM and Elastic Path Integration
Read how integrating Salsify PIM (Product Information Management) with the Elastic Path e-commerce system to automate product data synchronization eliminated manual processes and empowered business users to directly manage product information without tying up technical resources.
The Client
A health equipment manufacturer.
The Challenge
The client operated on an application tightly-coupled with their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, which created significant scalability and adaptability limitations. As they prepared to modernize and migrate to the cloud, their existing monolithic architecture hindered adding new features and enhancements.
Product data management was particularly problematic. The custom e-commerce site relied on ERP stored procedures to fetch product information, including catalogs, categories, products, and SKUs, resulting in efficiency and performance constraints. Only ERP specialists and analysts could modify product data, creating business operations bottlenecks. Basic tasks such as enabling/disabling products or updating product attributes were unnecessarily complex and time-consuming for business users.
In brief, the client wanted to:
- Improve scalability and the ability to add new features by adapting to the changing circumstances quickly.
- Empower stakeholders to manage, retrieve, and modify product data efficiently.
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The Solution
GSPANN implemented a comprehensive solution that streamlined product data management. Here are the highlights of our solution:
- Integrated Salsify PIM with Elastic Path e-commerce to automate product data synchronization.
- Established a seamless data flow between Elastic Path e-commerce and the ERP OMS using Boomi as middleware.
- Implemented a product export process from Salsify to Elastic Path:
- Salsify exports product data in JSON format every 12 hours
- The data is stored in AWS S3
- Elastic Path retrieves and imports the data via API
- Salsify exports product data in JSON format every 12 hours
- Mapped attributes from Elastic Path Product/SKU to Salsify product attributes. Additionally, we added new attributes in Salsify to improve Solr search results in Elastic Path.
- Provided business users with direct access to Salsify for easy product data modification. Our solution enabled flexible data management, allowing users to massage data per business needs.
The solution also included a successful proof of concept for handling multiple order types and integrating addresses, customers, accounts, and orders between ERP and Elastic Path.
Business Impact
- Faster Time-to-Market: Reduced product updates from days to hours.
- Operational Efficiency: Eliminated 100% of manual data exports.
- Improved Agility: Business users independently manage product attributes and catalogs.
- Scalability: Supports 30,000+ products with complex SKU hierarchies.
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