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item and crossbase - the ideal modular system

item uses crossbase as an individualized PIM, MAM and cross-media solution

With the crossbase software solution, all product information is maintained centrally in one place. This simplifies the production processes for the media to be created and ensures that the data source is always up-to-date.

item Industrietechnik GmbH
42699 Solingen

Contact person:
Ralf Schmidt
Head of Product Management
Tel.: +49 212 6580 5278
r.schmidt@item24.com

Information about the company

Type of company: Manufacturer
Branch of industry: Mechanical engineering
Branch of industry: Mechanical engineering
Sales assortment: over 4,000 products
Sales category: 101 to € 250 million
Number of employees: 494 employees
ERP system: Microsoft Dynamics

Information on the solution

Software type: Standard software
Solution type: Individual solution

Products from item are legendary in the field of mechanical engineering. There is hardly a mechanical engineering company that does not develop its prototypes or special machines using the Solingen-based company's modular system. With its modular system, item also offers protective and partition wall components as well as workstation systems made of aluminum. The successful idea is ultimately basedon a universally usable profile system that replaced steel construction in mechanical engineering in the 1980s. The company now offers more than 3,000 products in every industrialized country around the globe.

Based on the crossbase standard software, a PIM, MAM and cross-media solution tailored to the individual requirements was implemented for item. With crossbase.text, multilingual text modules are automatically generated based on the product features maintained in the database. The products are also enriched with extensive images, documents and continuous text and mapped in various market and media-specific product views. These include, for example, the over 500-page product catalog for the MB Building Kit System, the online catalog and the ikasys CD-ROM catalog, all of which are created on a country-specific basis.

The layout of the printed product catalog is individual and very sophisticated. Modular, design-heavy layout modules are controlled via flow frames. This means that the number of pages in a document is dynamically adapted to the content.

The item CD-ROM catalog ikasys offers all the functionalities of the online catalog with assembly instructions, CAD data and parts list function with inquiry or order option. The solution offers great benefits in the area of eCommerce thanks to the output of electronic catalogs in BMEcat format and the ECLASS and UNSPSC classifications for trading partners. These include a wide range of automotive manufacturers and suppliers.

Solution details

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Print: Product range

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Online catalog: Produt

The crossbase solution in a nutshell

  • PIM with ERP interface, extensive product features and relationships
  • Product views for external presentation and extensive product relationships, e.g. accessories, tools and services
  • Translation workflow with TMS (SDL Trados)
  • Printed sales catalog in more than 5 languages
  • Multilingual online catalog
  • Multilingual ikasys CD-ROM catalog with integrated CAD viewer
  • Electronic catalogs (BMEcat) with classifications (ECLASS, UNSPSC)
  • Automatic Azure cloud upload for media data
  • Data provision for web catalog via API server

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