Outsourcing Data Synchronization & Management

Product proliferation and an ever-changing set of customers and vendors make managing master data a challenging and time consuming task. Savvy manufacturers and distributors depend on Liaison to outsource the management of their product, customer and vendor data.

Our Data Management Services include proven product information management technology, established processes and professional resources bundled together in one comprehensive offering.

Our team members are highly qualified content analysts. Working together, we help you prepare and share your customer, product and vendor inormation with trading partners and industry consortiums through any combination of our services.

  • Trading partner management: on-boarding, communication, and loading of trading partner catalogs, including portal access
  • Data cleansing and catalog maintenance: continual refinements of content catalog and structure according to the changing business needs
  • Standards management: managing the continual evolution of standards such as the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDNS) and taxonomies such as UNSPSC
  • Data synchronization management: managing the distribution of catalogs for internal and external requirements including website updates, print catalog distributions, and syndication to integrated trading partners and industry catalogs (GDSN)
  • Technical Operations Management: software operations, system backups, disaster recovery, system monitoring, support, maintenance, change management, technology support, and customer support

By outsourcing your Data Management activities to Liaison, you'll introduce new products more efficiently, implement pricing changes faster, and eliminate supply chain errors that result from incorrect data. Contact us today to learn more.

"By 2011, companies will leverage full supply chain integration outsourcing vs. just multi-enterprise infrastructure outsourcing (for example, traditional electronic data interchange) in 35% of their multi-enterprise projects, up from 15% in 2006 (0.7 probability)."
Gartner, Inc.
August, 2006


According to a report published by A.T. Kearney in 2002, "companies lose approximately $40 billion or 3.5% of sales each year because of supply chain information inefficiencies."