The dashboard for monitoring product content creation

Imagining new products, making sure they meet market demand, creating a prototype and monitoring production are essential steps. But once these steps have been completed, the real challenge begins: getting the product to market. 

This means first creating the right content to integrate it into the catalog and distribute it to the right channels. This content creation work requires fluid collaboration between teams to avoid the uncertainties that are common at this stage: has the enrichment work begun? When will it start? What's the estimated time before going online? Are language and country versions ready? This is where the dashboard becomes indispensable. 

A good dashboard should enable you to monitor content production in real time, control data quality, track the progress of tasks, and optimize the work of your teams. Find out how a PIM can help you design an effective dashboard, tailored to your specific needs.

Controlling data quality in the dashboard

Ensuring optimal control of data quality is crucial, particularly in the fashion sector, where online sales are constantly growing. Product Information Management (PIM) plays an essential role in this process, enabling the quality of information created and integrated to be monitored. 

Thanks to this tool, it is possible to define upstream the quality standards for each piece of data or content associated with a product, before it is distributed. For example, imagine a summer dress, a very popular seasonal product sold by a major fashion chain. The company can define specific rules to ensure that certain fields are enriched and validated before the product goes online. These fields include essential elements such as :

• Detailed description of the product
• Dimensions
• Materials
• Photos, videos
• Delivery and return conditions
• Available sizes
• Washing tips
• Cross-selling with other products
• Manufacturing information

Once this information has been entered and validated in PIM, customized dashboards can be created. These provide a clear, real-time view of data quality, enabling the company to monitor the level of requirements achieved. 

Using these dashboards, the company can adjust its processes to continually improve data quality, guaranteeing a better customer experience and more efficient management of product information.

Track progress and anticipate business deadlines with dashboards

The use of dashboards enables projects to be milestoned and each deadline to be met, offering stakeholders in various projects a capacity for anticipation.

The principle of completeness

When we talk about the level of completeness of a product data sheet, we're referring more precisely to the degree to which the various information required to enrich the data sheet has been filled in. In other words, completeness represents a unit of measurement that assesses the progress made in enriching product information. This notion is essential to ensure that each product sheet is sufficiently detailed to meet the expectations of customers and search engines.

To monitor the level of completeness, you can create a widget on the dashboard. This widget can be broken down according to different criteria such as range, collection, product universe, country, language, and many more. Thanks to this visualization, you can see at a glance the completeness rate according to different axes of analysis, giving you a precise overview of the state of product information.

A well-designed dashboard makes it possible not only to monitor completeness, but also to estimate the work remaining to be carried out for each breakdown, whether for a specific market, range or collection. The widget thus becomes a strategic analysis tool, offering a real-time estimate of the progress of enrichment work. This approach makes it easier to plan online deadlines and optimize priority management within teams.

Organizing the day-to-day work of our staff

In addition to analyzing product data and its completeness rate, a high-performance PIM allows you to integrate a to-do list widget into the dashboard. This type of widget is extremely practical for contributors, as it enables them to see and receive directly the tasks to be prioritized, whether at individual or team level. Tasks can vary according to the nature of the need:

• Content to be validated
• Content to be corrected
• New product to be enriched
• Arrival of a new product range
• Product sheets for translation
• And many other tasks

This to-do list, automatically managed by PIM , is a major asset for keeping product teams on track. It enables them to organize their working days efficiently in the blink of an eye, based on daily reminders directly visible in the dashboard. 

These reminders play an important role in optimizing workflows and internal processes, facilitating collaboration between the various teams involved in the product sheet enrichment process. Thanks to a well-configured dashboard, all enrichment work can be carried out more fluidly, with a clear vision of priorities and deadlines.