In brief: BMEcat is an XML standard for exchanging electronic product catalogues between suppliers and buyers. It was initiated by the German Association for Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Logistics (BME) and is widely used in B2B trade in German-speaking markets.
Wholesalers, e-procurement systems and industry portals often require product data in BMEcat format. Without PIM, creating these catalogues from Excel is often a laborious process. With PIM, they are generated automatically, tailored to each recipient’s format variants and mandatory fields.
A sanitary products manufacturer supplies its wholesalers with a monthly BMEcat catalogue containing ETIM attributes. Before export, the PIM system checks that all mandatory attributes have been populated.
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