Basic Guide to Product Modeling

nochannel commerce pim offers a robust framework for efficiently managing and optimizing your product data, ensuring a seamless and tailored experience for your customers across all touchpoints now that you're familiar with the fundamentals of pim, here's a basic guide to exploring and implementing your product model tailored to your business needs suppose you deal in the apparel industry, the following will walk you through creating a basic product data model for apparel items define unique groups of products think about the different types of apparel you sell begin by listing distinct groups of apparel products with similar characteristics and options example of groups of a product t shirts jeans dresses jackets shoes accessories each of these can become a product template within nochannel commerce pim create product templates within each group of products (template), identify the specific characteristics (attributes) that describe your products for example, a t shirt template might include characteristics like size, color, material, sleeve length, etc list down the specific characteristics and options for each template example product templates t shirt template size (small, medium, large, etc ) color (red, blue, green, etc ) fabric (cotton, polyester, blend, etc ) jeans template waist size (28, 30, 32, etc ) length (short, regular, long) fit (slim, regular, relaxed) dress template length (mini, midi, maxi) sleeve type (sleeveless, short sleeve, long sleeve) pattern (floral, striped, solid) jacket template style (bomber, denim, leather) closure (zipper, button, snap) lining (fleece, quilted, satin) group attributes for efficiency review the list of attributes and identify related properties that can be grouped into attribute groups create attribute groups for easier management and assignment to product templates example attribute groups size & fit group size fit material group fabric lining style & design group style pattern implementing the product data model follow these steps in the nochannel commerce portal create attributes define individual attributes such as size , color , fabric , etc create attribute groups group related properties together, like size & fit , material , style & design create product templates assign relevant attribute groups and/or attributes to each product template example assign size & fit group to t shirt template , material group to jeans template create products and variants based on the defined product templates, create specific products like red cotton t shirts or blue slim fit jeans this ensures consistency and adherence to your defined product characteristics if your products have variations (e g , different colors or sizes for the same t shirt design), create product variants within each product listing this allows for efficient management of different options generate variants within each product, such as small red cotton t shirt or 28x32 slim fit blue jeans