📝 CARTOUCHE: a header transformed into added value
The CARTOUCHE block has evolved to become much more than just a header. It now offers a clear and reliable overview of your FAB-DIS edition, highlighting:
● The effective date of sensitive information (deadlines, inventory, minimum quantities, marketing status, etc.).
● Improved pricing clarity, with a distinction between recommended and professional prices.
● Enhanced consistency checks to ensure the reliability of the data transmitted.
● Highlighting major changes to your edition, with the option to link to a detailed analysis.
● Legal framework for your terms of sale and protection of your content.
👉 Result: the CARTOUCHE becomes the signature of your FAB-DIS edition, combining transparency, compliance, and trust.
💼 COMMERCE: simplified, clarified, refocused
The COMMERCE block has been streamlined and redesigned to focus on the essentials: basic marketing and sales data, presented in a clear, precise, and easy-to-use manner.
Key benefits:
● A simplified structure, more intuitive and quick to learn.
● Better distribution of information across other blocks, for greater consistency and fewer duplicates.
● Transparent product lifecycle management to anticipate launches, withdrawals, and range transitions, and thus streamline inventory flow.
● Clear expression of units and prices to eliminate any ambiguity in commercial transactions.
● Optimized referencing, which reduces complexities and promotes efficient exchanges.
👉 With these developments, the COMMERCE Block becomes a central, clear, and reliable block, designed to simplify transactions and improve the experience between manufacturers, distributors, and customers.
📦 LOGISTICS: logistics gain in precision and clarity
The LOGISTICS section has been enhanced to provide a complete and detailed view of product dimensions and packaging, whether unpackaged or packaged.
Benefits:
● Accurate dimensional data to facilitate customer selection and ensure the right product for the right use.
● A better description of packaging (weight, volume, storage, pallets, etc.) to optimize flow management.
● Complex cases (modular products, multi-packs, packs, etc.) are taken into account for greater realism and efficiency.
👉 With FAB-DIS 3.0, the LOGISTICS section becomes a real lever for commercial and operational optimization.
🎥 MEDIA: richer, more varied, more impactful
The MEDIA block is evolving to better showcase products and services and offer an enriched customer experience across all channels.
In brief:
● More content: images, videos, 3D, BIM, guides, brochures, etc.
● Media identifiable by language and target audience.
● A clear description of each media to facilitate its use.
● The ability to integrate content specific to the Manufacturer/Distributor relationship (e.g., promotional banners).
👉 A key block to boost the visibility of offers and enrich the omnichannel experience.
⚖️ REGULATORY: compliance, transparency and trust
The REGULATORY section has been expanded to allow manufacturers to demonstrate and promote the compliance of their products with the increasingly numerous and demanding French and European regulations.
Key features:
● Expanded coverage of major issues: circular economy, carbon footprint, health & substances, functional fitness, traceability.
● Clear access to mandatory data and documents to simplify compliance.
● Integrated legal monitoring with updated regulatory tables available via Easy-Check by FAB-DIS.
👉 With this section, regulations become a lever for transparency, trust, and differentiation.
➕ EXTENSION: flexibility and customization
A new addition to FAB-DIS 3.0, the EXTENSION block complements the COMMERCE and LOGISTICS blocks by providing a greater wealth of information without compromising their stability.
Advantages:
● Sharing of additional attributes useful to the market: marketing color, manufacturing origin, government subsidies, customization, direct delivery, recoding, etc.
● A scalable and adaptable structure, capable of easily integrating new needs without impacting those that do not use it.
● The ability to add specific data specific to the Manufacturer/Distributor relationship.
👉 A block designed for flexibility and innovation, serving specific needs and market developments.
🎨 VARIANT: the right product, faster
The VARIANT block simplifies searching and selecting the ideal product from a range, whether on a e-commerce site or in an ERP.
Benefits:
● Clear identification of variants (size, color, material, technical specifications, etc.).
● Easier searches thanks to filters and facets, to quickly find the right product.
● Support for ETIM standards, FAB-DIS properties, or, failing that, structured labels.
👉 A block designed to improve the customer experience and streamline the purchasing process.
🔗 CORRESPONDENCE: more sales, more value
The CORRESPONDENCE block is evolving to become a powerful business lever. It enriches the customer experience and stimulates sales through relevant and personalized offers.
Benefits:
● Highlighting complementary, essential, or substitute products.
● Encouraging upsells and additional purchases.
● Promoting spare parts to extend product lifespans.
● Offering associated services to strengthen the offering.
● More refined management of correspondences (display order, exclusives, multi-brand).
👉 A strategic block to boost cross-selling, upselling, and customer loyalty.
⛔ STOP: transparency and after-sales continuity
The STOP block centralizes discontinued products to streamline product lifecycle management and secure monitoring of installed base.
Benefits:
● Clear and dated confirmation of discontinuation.
● Reliable updating of distributor databases.
● Compliance with regulatory obligations (AGEC, Climate & Resilience, etc.).
● Guaranteed continuity: access to spare parts, consumables, services, and maintenance documents even after product discontinuation.
👉 A key block to build trust, secure after-sales service, and extend customer value.
🔄 SUBSTITUTION: find the right replacement, simply
The SUBSTITUTION block has been simplified to facilitate its use and ensure a smooth transition between old and new products.
Benefits:
● Clear identification of the replacement product or the most suitable alternative.
● Effective support for the maintenance and management of replacement parts.
● Greater simplicity thanks to a streamlined and consistent structure.
● Better multi-brand management during replacements.
👉 A block designed to ensure business continuity and facilitate maintenance.
⚙️ ETIM: the technique in all clarity
The ETIM block retains its structure but gains in readability with a simplified nomenclature.
Benefits:
● Efficient sharing of technical specifications in the ETIM standard.
● Consistent distribution across all channels (web, ERP, catalog, etc.).
● Greater clarity and consistency for exploiting technical data.
👉 An essential block for ensuring the quality and consistency of product information.
🗂️ PYRAMID: organize and promote the product offering
● The PYRAMID block allows manufacturers to share their own marketing nomenclature, in order to better structure and promote their offer.
