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The Global Data Sync Adapter: Simplifying the Exchange of Data

Data. It’s critical to every retail transaction, and the reason you use a data pool that publishes to the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN). But getting data to your retailers can be a challenge, since some of them subscribe to the GDSN … and some of them don’t. That means sending data to multiple sources and in multiple formats, which can be time-consuming and costly in an era where you need to watch every penny.

Prescient’s Global Data Synch (GDS) Adapter connects you to GDSN-member retailers who have also chosen Prescient as their “one pipe” solution for data synchronization and advanced commerce services.

Here’s how it works: you enter information into your data pool only once. Your Prescient retail trading partners can subscribe to your GDSN item data using the GDS Adapter, eliminating the need for you to perform duplicate data entry. And Prescient’s GDS Adapter facilitates the synchronization of pricing data, whether your data pool transmits that information or not.

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 sending 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 manage data your way? Prescient can help.