In brief: ETIM is an international classification model for technical products, primarily in electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning and construction. For each product class, it defines which characteristics are described and which units and values are used.
Wholesalers in the electrical and building services sectors require product data in line with ETIM so that customers can filter and compare products by their characteristics in online shops and catalogues. Maintaining data in line with ETIM allows you to supply many distributors from a single dataset.
A PIM system manages ETIM classes and characteristics alongside your own data model and maps your attributes to them. Data is usually exported via BMEcat.
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