2BA Data label

The Data Label is a useful tool for measuring and optimising your product and trade information within the 2BA data pool. This allows buyers to find this information efficiently and process it in their processes. In order to arrive at a reliable basis, requirements must first be drawn up. It can then be assessed whether data is 100% completely reliable and therefore usable. Only when you are 100% sure what product number 212345 stands for, can all processes be completed without loss of time and risk. For this reason, 2BA has developed the Data Label in collaboration with wholesalers and end users. The Data Label is intended to give you, as a data supplier, insight into the completeness of your data. A tool to align your data efforts with the needs of your buyers. After all, your data is the basis for the (key) business processes within the entire sector.

Operation

The Data label assesses the data published within the data pool per GLN based on the requirements set by the target group. There are four target groups; wholesalers, installer calculation, installer purchasing and maritime.
In addition to the mandatory data fields within the data model (= 100% filling), filling percentages have been set based on data requirements. The specified percentages represent the minimum filling.
If a GLN does not contain product data (wholesaler) or trade items (product data maintained by…), the relevant counters are not part of the assessment.

Reporting

For each Data label you can request an overview of which trade items and/or products lack essential data to achieve a higher label score.

Exeptions

Services, contracts and licenses
For services, contracts and software it is not always possible to specify all product and trade item data according to the standards/data requirement. To prevent a negative effect on the Data Label, you have the option to give these products a specific producttype . These records are not included in the valuation for irrelevant data points and are separately visible in the statistics.

New products for which not all data is known or available yet
In practice, it appears that the availability of data for new products unfortunately sometimes lags behind. In order to be able to publish this incomplete trade item data via the data pool, we recommend that you enter the date on which the trade item can actually be ordered and therefore the data is complete as the trade item start date. These trade item(s) and the associated products are valued in the statistics set ‘Future data’.

Three different sets of statistics are available per GLN:

• Current data
  The statistics set Current data contains statistics of product and trade item records of which the trade item entry date is not in the future. Based on this statistics set the publicly visible score on the Data label is determined.

• Future data
  The statistics set Future data contains statistics of product and trade item records with a trade item date in the future. Products and trade items do not count towards the publicly visible label rating.

• Total
  The Total statistics set contains statistics of product and trade items records, regardless of the date specified for the trade item entry date