Customer : Fiducial Office Solutions
Sector: Office and school supplies for professionals
Site: fiducial-office-solutions.fr
Customer context
Fiducial Office Solutions offers a wide range of supplies for companies, local authorities and schools. With a major sales event approaching, the team wanted to create a catalog dedicated to school supplies, in order to provide an offer tailored to the commercial opportunity.
Fiducial Office Solutions had already used Algocat's solution to structure and enrich its global catalog, and asked us to meet this need.
Problems encountered
- Some of the products had only incomplete descriptions, or descriptions that could not be used for attribute enrichment.
- Some attributes were defined, but lists of standardized values were missing, limiting the use of these attributes as search filters.
- A need for rapid enrichment with few validation steps, as part of one-shot processing, to meet publication deadlines.
Our Algocat solution
To meet this need, the following tasks were carried out:
- Parameterization of an Algocat instance according to customer-specific taxonomy (250 categories and 500 attributes)
- Search for additional information on the web when the description provided does not allow attributes to be enriched
- Automatic attribute extraction, without initial standardization.
- Proposal of attribute normalization values based on extracted values.
- Finalize parameterization according to the finalized taxonomy, then restart processing to obtain a complete final catalog.
Results
- A catalog of 4,000 structured references delivered in record time (1 week).
- At a cost 3 times lower than manual catalog creation.
- With an error rate of less than 1%.
Customer feedback
"Algocat's work enabled us to speed up catalog enrichment and provide tailored support to our sales teams with over 4,000 SKUs in an optimized timeframe." The Fiducial Office Solutions team