What does PIM mean?
PIM stands for Product Information Management. It means managing, structuring and distributing product information for different applications.
PIM for the pharmacy market
PIM for product information in the pharmacy market
PIM stands for Product Information Management: managing product data centrally and making it available to different applications. Medipim applies this to products sold or used in the pharmacy market. Product data, descriptions, categories, packaging information and images come together in product records available through the platform, API and connected applications.
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What does a PIM system do?
A PIM system brings product data together, keeps it structured and makes it available to the systems and channels that need it. Manufacturers, wholesalers and digital applications can work with consistent information instead of maintaining separate files and versions.
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A PIM for pharmacy products
Product information for pharmacies includes more than a name and an image. Depending on the product, a record can also contain features, categories, packaging details, descriptions, images and other product data. Available fields vary by product and market.
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From product data to applications
Manufacturers and wholesalers can provide or manage information. Medipim processes and structures the data, adds agreed information where needed, then makes it available to pharmacies, software companies, webshops and other connected applications.
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Who is Medipim for?
Medipim supports manufacturers and brands that manage or provide product data, wholesalers that use and share it, and pharmacies and software companies that need product information in their everyday applications.
Frequently asked questions
Is Medipim a PIM?
Yes. Medipim is a PIM platform for product information in the pharmacy market. It brings product data together and makes it available through the platform, API and connected software.
How is Medipim different from a PIM like Akeneo, or from GS1?
Medipim combines both, and takes care of the data itself as well. A PIM such as Akeneo supplies the technology and GS1 supplies the standards, but both rely on manufacturers to enter and maintain their own data. Often that happens only in part, or not at all. Medipim has the technology and applies the standards, from GTIN to the ARTG ID. Above all, Medipim collects, checks, photographs and updates the data itself, across the whole pharmacy range: from tightly regulated medicines to cosmetics.
Does Medipim replace my pharmacy software or webshop?
No. Medipim manages and supplies product information for other systems to use. Your webshop, pharmacy software or app remains the application where you put that data to work.
Does every product record contain the same information?
No. Available information depends on the product, the market and the data available. A record can include codes, features, descriptions, categories, packaging details and images.
Provide or use product information?
Manufacturers submit their product information once. Medipim checks and processes it, so pharmacies, wholesalers, online shops and software providers can immediately work with usable data. No one has to look up, photograph, enter or correct the same information over and over again. That saves time across the entire supply chain.
Use product information
Pharmacies and healthcare professionals · Software companies and webshops · Wholesalers
Provide product information
Manufacturers and brands · Wholesalers · Data sources and partners
