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TrueSource

The Trusted Source of Product Data

Managing and entering the same product data in different formats, for multiple trading partners is an unnecessary overhead. It leads to errors and additional costs in warehousing, delivery, merchandising and other commercial processes.

Bad data is a £billion issue in the UK. The Data Crunch report showed that core product data held in leading retailers’ systems was inconsistent 80% of the time.

TrueSource is our data quality solution available to all members. It allows suppliers to enter product data once and share it with all their trading partners.

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TrueSource helps ensure product data is accurate, up-to-date and can be trusted. Allowing you to easily manage and share product data that complies with GS1 industry standards.

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Enter, manage, store master product data in one place and send direct to trading partners. With embedded data pool functionality, it is also your route into publishing and synchronisation (GDSN) worldwide.

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Enter basic information that describes your key product features to trading partners Comparebox marks yes Comparebox marks yes
Manage your update process and ensure there is a single version of the truth Comparebox marks yes Comparebox marks yes
Store your product data in one place Comparebox marks yes
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Publish your accurate product data direct trading partners Comparebox marks no Comparebox marks yes
Synchronise via GDSN ensuring all trading partners have the same version of product data Comparebox marks no Comparebox marks yes
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Additional Services

There are also a number of services that help brand owners capture, prepare and enter accurate data ready to share with trading partners.

  • Quality Assurance powered by Brandbank
    • Data Capture collect core product data (weights and measurement ) and enter into TrueSource
    • Image capture
    • Verification barcode quality tested to measure scanability
    • Validation of interim data collected in TrueSource with that of the physical product
  • Consulting data audits/analysis, data matching , preparation and cleansing
  • Training

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Read about TrueSource and Global Data Synchronisation (GDS) and how it can help your business

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  chain visibility.
 
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