As Colruyt Group, the largest retail group in Belgium, offers hundreds of thousands different products to consumers spread across different store concepts, they want to manage all product master data in an efficient way, especially in a fast changing environment with ever increasing legislation and consumer requirements. Therefore the PIM - Product Information Management - programme was created in order to be able to provide reliable product information to the different business operating units within Colruyt Group.

The programme consists out of the following tracks:

• Organization & governance: Modifying existing processes within the organisation and setting up a centralized service center for product management
• Tools: Implementing new applications to obtain product information from suppliers and manage product master data
• Services: Setting up online and batch application services to provide product information to consumers such as shop floor applications, websites, ...

As a functional analyst within this programme, I mainly participated in the tools and services tracks in which my main tasks were to:

• Analyse and describe system requirements in deliverables such as context and scope diagrams, use cases, logical data models, state diagrams, user interface designs, non-functional requirements, ...
• Enable integrations between the new PIM application and legacy systems by creating integration requirements
• Migrate data from legacy systems to the new PIM application and improve data quality
• Create online and batch service specifications to be able to offer product information to consumers
• Support the testing team during system testing, system integration testing, ... and manage user acceptance testing
• Create training material, provide training and offer support to business

Colruyt Group GS1 GDSN Stibo Step