Leading distributor of Chemicals, Life Science and Laboratory Products

Purpose of the project

-	To cleanse, classify and enrich product data from the Customer’s Inventory
-	To collect, cleanse, classify and enrich product data from competing distributors
-	Design and Development of Software Application for field deployment to allow cross-referencing between customer Items and competing Items in the market.

Volume

-	1,000,000 Items

Type of items

-	Antibodies, Reagents, Bio-Reagents, Laboratory Equipment, Laboratory Supplies etc.

Process

-	All items were classified to customer taxonomy. Domain experts suggested new categories and attributes for items which did not have a relevant class in the existing schema.
-	Data was cleansed and normalized, including Manufacturer Name and Supplier Name
-	Mandatory attribute values such as Manufacturer and Supplier Name and Part No. were extracted from Item Descriptions.
-	Similarly, product specific attributes were extracted to templates provided by the customer. Item Descriptions were enriched by visiting Manufacturer Websites and sourcing additional information for Customer distributed items.
-	Competitor web-sites were scraped and matching Product Data was collected and cleansed.
-	Created two comparable sets of data -Items distributed by the Customer and Items distributed by competitors.
-	Software tool based on J2EE architecture was designed with provision to give weightage to attributes and a comparison logic written to allow cross referencing between products.

Key Success Factors

-	Domain Expertise coming from experienced professionals with strong Life Science and Chemical Industry background.
-	Dedicated team of 120 professionals generating 80,000 items per month.
-	Strong process definition and on-site project manager
-	Ability to handle large datasets and management of production facilities using Unilog’s proprietary software Applications.