Data Label

Your product and trade data always on track

The Data Label is a useful aid to measuring and optimising product and trade information in the 2BA Data Pool, allowing buyers to be able to find this information in the most efficient way possible and incorporate it into their own processes.

Towards an increasingly higher quality of data, together!

The 2BA goal is: ‘Collecting, validating, managing and distributing high-quality product and related trade data for a variety of market segments such as installation business, construction, system integrators, machine manufacturers and the maritime sector. ‘The key issue in this goal is the term ‘Data Label’.

Given the diversity of possible applications, the term ‘Data Label’ is somewhat broad. After all, not everyone uses product and trade data in the same way. For example, installers, who use the data as the basis for the logistics process (order, order processing and invoicing) have other demands of Data Label than companies that use the data for design and technical estimating, for example).In addition, suppliers who use the data to put together catalogues (also electronic) and/or web stores have other demands again of Data Label.

So do consult the overview Data needs of data pooling to get a good idea of the criteria your product and/or trade data should comply with for your buyers.

Data needs of your customers

The need for high-quality product and trade data is increasing. The different parties within the chain also have different data needs. 2BA has drawn up a matrix based on the data needs of your customers.

Validation by 2BA

To ensure the quality of the data supplied, various checks on the product and trade data are possible within 2BA, such as validation based on:

• Use of valid messages (exchange formats);
• Content fields such as, for example, the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN);
• History (both automatic and manual);
• 3D-defined objects (ETIM-MC/UOB).

PIM system as a basis

To properly manage and deliver your product and trade data, the use of a Product Information Management (PIM) system is highly recommended. In addition to classifying and entering the relevant ETIM product features, a PIM system also enables you to deliver your product data through a correct, uniform exchange format. In addition, a PIM system can also provide you with an efficient service in combination with your ERP system. 2BA’s PIM partners will be happy to advise you on the possibilities.

Support

The starting point for 2BA when it comes to data distribution is that the responsibility for your data is entirely yours, as supplier. After all, it is your data! Given the sector’s vested interests, you naturally don’t have to do it on your own. In addition to appointing a fixed contact, 2BA has also drawn up a step-by-step plan. This step-by-step plan supports which data the sector is expecting at that moment, per category (of data).

Providing complete and clear information about our transformers is very important to us at EREA

“Not only is the quality of our products crucial, the product data must also be 100 percent correct. After all, it is on the basis of this data that we help our customers in choosing their transformer. That is precisely why EREA continuously invests in meeting the most recent requirements in the field of Data Label. We are therefore very proud that we have been awarded this “Triple + score” by our partner 2BA.”

Herman Nollet, Co-Owner EREA Energy Engineering BV

We want to be at the forefront of technological developments and developments in the market.

“One of OPPLE Lighting’s goals is to make installing our luminaires as easy as possible. In addition to reliable quality and ease of installation, we also like to contribute to making the correct product data available.”

tijn van der Kamp, Product Data Manager OPPLE Lighting

Wholesaler Schuurman Groothandel emphasises
the importance of correct data.

“It helps our customers to choose the right items for a minimum of time and effort. We give priority to suppliers who score well. We are looking forward to being able to inform our customers even better with enhanced data and make them enthusiastic about your products!”

Judith Lub, Commercial Director of Schuurman Groothandel in Elektrotechniek

“Geberit supplies products of the highest quality: good advice, documentation and, of course, product data are an important part of this”.

Hank Wes, Product Manager Geberit

It is important for us that our products are easily found by our customers

“We understand that good and current article data is a must for them. So that they can easily share this with their customer or order easily. We are therefore constantly working on improvements and extensions to our range in 2BA”

Corne Fijneman, Technical Support Engineer Murrelektronik

The 2BA Data Label

The Data Label is a useful aid to measuring and optimising product and trade information in the 2BA Data Pool, allowing buyers to be able to find this information in the most efficient way possible and incorporate it into their own processes.

2BA makes a variety of tools available with which to achieve a higher standard of Data Label. Based on the results of these tools, you can improve your product or trade data where necessary. So that both the buyers of your data and your own organisation benefit from this.

Your assortment on 2BA Unifeed

A growing number of software providers now support a direct connection to the 2BA Unifeed. This Unifeed integration gives the user the option to search within the 2BA data pool from their own software and directly transfer one or more selected items to the calculation, quotation or drawing process, among other possibilities.

The search results obtained and their sorting depend on various factors. Based on various use cases, the search result sorting algorithm has recently been adjusted to make it even easier to find what you are looking for. In addition to the specified search criteria and any enabled filter(s), the data richness now determines the order of the result.

The sorting of the search results is determined, amongst other things, by:

• Product relevance
  Does the product contain related items or not
  Primary status code – regular, incoming and outgoing
  
  
• ETIM Classification
  Is the product classified in an ETIM product class
  Does the product feature one or more ETIM characteristic values
  
  
• Attachments
  Does the product have a product image attachment
  
  
• GLN status
  Is the data status current in accordance with the agreed delivery frequency?

In addition, the position of and number of times the specific search criteria are found will now play an important role.

Processing report

Given the complexity of the data, there are several checks in place which are carried out automatically during each delivery of data to 2BA. The results of this are combined in a processing report after every delivery. The report offers the possibility of detecting and ultimately restricting to a minimum any errors and/or deficiencies in your data. Once you have gone through the report, it’s up to you to decide whether to approve the data or not.

Feedback Ticket System

Your data is available to all participants in 2BA through the Unifeed search engine and will indirectly be partly assessed by your buyers. The feedback ticket system gives the user a chance to submit a report about a specific product or item. This might be about incorrect GTINs or product references, or questions about trade data such as price information, order details or logistics information.

Data Statistics

The 2BA statistics offer a general insight into which of your data is available through 2BA. For example, how many item records are provided with such details as price information, discount groups and logistics information but also how this is as compared to the complete data.

Query Reports

The various query reports give you, the data supplier, direct insight into the general status of your data. For example, direct insight into which appendices are linked to which products. Or which suppliers refers to products not, or not yet, present in the data pool.

Deep Scan Report

The deep scan consists of a number of checks aimed at detecting specific errors in trade data. These could for example be errors in the form of price deviations or deviating units of use. These deviations are measured across (if present) multiple trade records.