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Unified product catalog for SPAR Middle Volga Holding

The Russian division of leading grocery retailer SPAR unified a catalog of 260k products for 3 companies: SPAR (retail), Sweet Life (wholesale food supplies), and Sweet Life Food Service (HoReCa food …

Retail PIM/MDM Data Centralization EMEA Russia
Reduced duplicate data
260k
Data Objects
Challenge
Challenge Project prerequisites: the holding company needs a unified product catalog SPAR Middle Volga holding consists of 3 companies: SPAR (retail), Sweet Life (wholesale supply of food products) and Sweet Life Food Service (supply of products for HoReCa). The assortment of companies in the group …
Solution
Solution Project implementation: Pimcore - a system for working with assortment, supplemented by intelligent data analysis Pimcore has become the master system for product information. Odyssey Consulting Group consultants also made modifications to the system to automate routine operations for holdi…
Results
Results Project results: 260 thousand SKUs under control In June 2021, the system was put into commercial operation. Today more than 80 users and 10 suppliers are connected to Pimcore. The system processes data on over 260,000 SKUs. Odyssey Consulting Group and SPAR continue to collaborate on the su…
Customer
Spar Middle Volga
Industry
Products Used
PIM/MDM

Customer Key Facts

209

Locations

7 816

Employees

Challenge

Project prerequisites: the holding company needs a unified product catalog

SPAR Middle Volga holding consists of 3 companies: SPAR (retail), Sweet Life (wholesale supply of food products) and Sweet Life Food Service (supply of products for HoReCa). The assortment of companies in the group overlapped, but each had its own system to work with the catalog and individual design templates for product cards. Due to this, the companies' employees were forced to duplicate each other's work in different systems. The management of the holding decided to create a unified catalog and turned to Odyssey Consulting Group to solve the issue.

Pimcore backend showing a product order management grid with Cyrillic text and status indicators

"The system helps us efficiently manage our product catalog. Now we work with more than 260 thousand products in Pimcore without errors and without wasting extra time."

Alexey Bespalov

Project Manager

Unified product catalog for SPAR Middle Volga Holding

Solution

Project implementation: Pimcore - a system for working with assortment, supplemented by intelligent data analysis

Pimcore has become the master system for product information. Odyssey Consulting Group consultants also made modifications to the system to automate routine operations for holding employees. Pimcore now notifies an employee if they enter information about already existing in the system product. A special pre-configured report helps to check the validity of certificates for each product. A personal account was created for suppliers, where they enter information about products into the system. This approach helps speed up the appearance of new products in the catalog and reduces the number of manual operations for employees: information from suppliers only needs to be checked. In order to speed up verification of information from suppliers, Odyssey Consulting Group experts created a tool for automatic verification of images. The system checks not only file format and image size, but also conformity to company requirements: white background, image clarity, absence of filters, collages, extra objects in the photo.

Pimcore backend showing a wine product detail page with nutritional attributes in Russian

Results

Project results: 260 thousand SKUs under control

In June 2021, the system was put into commercial operation. Today more than 80 users and 10 suppliers are connected to Pimcore. The system processes data on over 260,000 SKUs. Odyssey Consulting Group and SPAR continue to collaborate on the support and development of the solution.

Pimcore backend showing a grocery product with consumer description and online availability in Russian

Key Results

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Reduced duplicate data

260k

Data Objects

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