PIMVENDORS thinks alongside you, to offer you the best advice in the choice on your perfect PIM. But what are the benefits of a PIM? And how do you make sure you have the right one?
Product Information Management (PIM-)systems are a convenient way to keep track of enormous amounts of product data; efficiently organize your product work-flows, and steadily monitor your digital processes. Contrary to its business counterpart, ERP- which is more focussed on administrative process PIM allows for a more data-integrated, marketing-oriented approach in your corporate vision.
Chris is founder and co-owner of pimvendors.com. With his knowledge of the PIM market he is an important link between the retailer and the PIM supplier.
As a senior Master Data and Product Information expert Chris is advising customers to organise their data in the most efficient way to serve their OmniChannel goals. He is a specialist in optimizing business processes and advising the management to implement the right tooling to support these processes.
Amongst his customers are major international companies like Action, Ahold, Bijenkorf, Blokker, Hunkemöller and Staples International. Chris has helped many retail and wholesale companies in RFI and RFP processes, selecting the right PIM/MDM tooling. Recently he founded pimvendors.com in which he makes a (semi)automated match between customer, PIM vendor and implementation partner.
Chris has recently been appointed as Shopping Award Vakexpert 2022.
Stephan is co-founder and co-owner of PIMVendors.com, using his experience of starting and scaling companies to help launch and grow the initiative.
He has over 10 years of online retail experience selling digital products, subscription services and physical products. As the COO of Westwing Benelux, he was involved in the day-to-day PIM processes of a 50-person team focussed only on getting the right product data online in a timely and efficient manner, launching over 1200 new products a day.
Since then, he has been consulting in the eCommerce Lifestyle space, developing and launching OmniChannel fashion retail solutions, building large eCommerce sites and launching marketplace platforms for Home & Living.
Ronald is co-founder pimvendors.com through Contakt Consulting. He has many years of experience in the Retail, Wholesale and FMCG industries in consultant, business developer and sales director roles.
His focus areas are Digital strategy, Information – and Data management, Selection and implementation of IT solutions and Program, Project, Agile/Scrum and Change management. Contakt strongly believes that a tremendous amount of value can be generated by exchanging more data and information in the value chain. Consultants of Contakt are involved in projects for GS1 and Industry wide improvement programs. Within the Contakt network of independent professionals there are hundreds of years of experience and knowledge on MDM and PIM selection and implementation, especially in the Retail, Building & Construction and Installation industries.
Sophia is our Head of Customer Success. With her enthusiasm she is a true addition to the pimvendors team. has experienced Contemporary Communication in LCC International University of Klaipeda, Lithuania. Interested in modern arts, fashion, IT- technologies and skilled in intercultural communication,sales, statistics, and working with Remote Helpers.
Karin Lemans is an experienced consultant in product information management, master data management and product configuration management. With her hands on mentality she helps organization professionalizing their data management (department).
She has over 15 years experience in leading master data and product information management departments and has worked for organizations like Ahrend furniture, Bruynzeel kitchens, DeliHome wholesale, Outdoor life group and Rainforest Alliance. She is at her best in production companies with all the master data that is related to that (bills of material, routings). Data management of configurable products also have her interest.
Instead of consulting from the sideline, Karin prefers to support organizations from inside out.
Nadim is a FR/EN highly experienced consultant in product data management. Founder of one of the first GDSN compliant platforms, he has more than 20 years of experience in MDM and PIM and recognized as a subject-matter expert in the PIM/MDM space. He has a deep expertise of the GS1 Standards and experience in various verticals (CPG, Pharma, Retail).
Nadim is a fanatic of a 100% product data quality as he is convinced that perfect product data is foundational and key for the success of any digital transformation project. For this reason, he has a hands-on approach in product data management projects: assessing the needs, designing business processes (as-is and targets), construction data dictionaries and glossaries, facilitating data quality workshops and designing data governance organization.
Nadim is a fanatic of a 100% product data quality as he is convinced that perfect product data is foundational and key for the success of any digital transformation project. For this reason, he has a hands-on approach in product data management projects: assessing the needs, designing business processes (as-is and targets), construction data dictionaries and glossaries, facilitating data quality workshops and designing data governance organization.
Ronald is co-founder pimvendors.com through Contakt ConsultRonald Muller is a highly experienced management consultant and senior manager.
He has more than 20 years of real-world experience with Product Information Management (PIM), Master Data Management (MDM) and e-commerce. He worked both for enterprise customers and small start-ups.
Ronald is generally recognized as subject-matter expert in the field of PIM and product classification. Especially in the B2B market of production and trade in technical products.
Ronald has detailed (hands-on) knowledge of many well known PIM systems.
His focus areas are Digital strategy, Information – and Data management, Selection and implementation of IT solutions and Program, Project, Agile/Scrum and Change management. Contakt strongly believes that a tremendous amount of value can be generated by exchanging more data and information in the value chain. Consultants of Contakt are involved in projects for GS1 and Industry wide improvement programs. Within the Contakt network of independent professionals there are hundreds of years of experience and knowledge on MDM and PIM selection and implementation, especially in the Retail, Building & Construction and Installation industries.
René has a lot of experience in managing organizations that are making the transition from decentralized stored data in any format to centrally stored data. Through his interest and use of new software technology, he has knowledge of Docker, Golang, Python and Talend MDM.
His passion for data and product management started early. Almost 30 years ago he started improving the quality of data by defining standard working methods and agreements.
In recent years, René has focused on the ETIM and ETIM MC standards and supports companies in classifying data and setting up PIM systems to record this classification.
Marcel is an experienced consultant in the (digital) retail space, bringing companies tot the next level in e-commerce product information management and digital transformation projects.
He has over 20 years retail experience as an e-commerce manager, project manager and change manager and currently involved in projects at retailers including A.S.W., COOP & ANWB Retail. Also he did projects for B2B companies as Bouwmaat, wholesale and retail fashion at PVH (Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein) and he was responsible for e-commerce at SUEZ.
Having guided multiple implementations of a wide range of PIM systems he has learned to focus on the requirements from the business side while also keeping an eye on future growth needs of the business and maintenance of the PIM solution.
