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Product information management

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCommon term

In e-commerce, product information management means: The centralized management of product descriptions, attributes and other information for use across sales channels.

In Turkish: ürün bilgi yönetimi

How it is used

Often shortened to PIM; use for maintaining consistent product information, not for counting warehouse stock.

Example sentences

  1. Product information management keeps the same material description across our three stores.

    One managed source reduces conflicting descriptions between channels.

  2. The product information management team approved the translated care instructions.

    The work includes checking product content before it reaches shoppers.

Common collocations

  • product information management system
  • product information management team
  • PIM platform
  • product catalogThe full set of products a business sells, together with their information such as names, categories, prices, variants and images.
  • product feedA file or data connection, often in XML or CSV, that sends a store's product details such as titles, prices, stock and images to marketplaces, ad platforms or comparison sites.

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