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The Global Data Sync Adapter:  Getting Data Your Way

Data. It’s what drives your business. But getting the data you need to conduct business can be a challenge. Some of your suppliers subscribe to data pools … and some of them don’t. That means that you have to receive, match, and interpret data from multiple sources and in multiple formats, which can be time-consuming and costly in an era where retailers are watching every penny.

As a member of the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN), how do you get data … from all your suppliers …the way you want it and need it? With Prescient’s Global Data Synch (GDS) Adapter, your “one pipe” solution for receiving data from all your GDSN and non-GDSN suppliers. The GDS Adapter enables you to synchronize and receive item and price data in the format that you define, no matter where the data originates. Suppliers publish their data to their desired data pool, which is routed to you through Prescient’s GDSA. Suppliers who don’t publish to a pool can send their data directly to Prescient. Either way, you have one conduit for commerce-ready data.

Prescient’s GDS Adapter provides these business benefits:

• Provides item, price, and promotion level data.  Unlike most data pools, Prescient’s solution goes beyond item and includes price and promotion information. When current GDSN standards expand to include this data, you’ll be ready
• Ensures data accuracy.  With Prescient, retailers and suppliers agree ahead of time on item, price, and promotional data. You have one version of the truth … and spend fewer man-hours getting to it. Not to mention fewer invoice discrepancies.
• One pipe, one investment.  The GDS Adapter will solve your immediate issues around receiving data. If your future includes scan based trading and other advanced commerce initiatives, the GDS Adapter has the functionality to take you there.

Best of all, Prescient’s GDS Adapter is a credible solution. It’s been road-tested with 1SYNC, one of several data pools that participate in the GDSN. Want to get data your way? Prescient can help.