PIM for Building Materials

A product information management system for building materials is the one place where technical specs, declared performance, documents, sales units and marketing copy come together. Every merchant, dealer and channel then receives the same complete data in the format it asks for.

Yes. ETIM covers the building materials sector next to electrical and HVAC. The ETIM 10.0 model is already in WISEPIM: you adopt the classes you sell as product families, let AI map products to classes and fill features, and check conformance per product. Feed Hub exports BMEcat 2005 with ETIM features, and the importer reads the ETIM features in BMEcat files from your suppliers.

WISEPIM uses the international ETIM release, with English names for classes and features. National language packs are not included; the Dutch one, for example, is reserved for ETIM members. If you have access to a pack, ask us about adding it. Your product copy translates into 70+ languages, and the translation glossary keeps trade terms consistent.

Yes, as structured data. Keep the DoP number as an attribute, each declared value as a typed attribute with its unit, and the DoP PDF as a file attribute. A Quality Guard rule can hold back products in a family that miss them. WISEPIM does not draw up declarations or assess conformity: that stays with you and, where required, your notified body. Selling in several countries? Each member state can require the DoP in its own language, so keep one file attribute per language, for example DoP (NL) and DoP (DE).

Yes. A custom team role limits a member to the fields and attributes you choose. Content editors write descriptions and titles, while only your technical team changes declared values and the DoP file.

Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 entered into force on 7 January 2025, and its main part applies from 8 January 2026. The 2011 regulation and the new one coexist for a long period: a harmonised standard cited under the old rules stays valid under them until the Commission withdraws it. The new regulation adds a declaration of performance and conformity and a digital product passport, which becomes mandatory 18 months after the European Commission's delegated act on the passport system enters into force. WISEPIM does not issue passports. It keeps the values and documents they draw on structured per product.

Yes. Store the order unit, content unit, units per order unit, minimum order quantity and order step as attributes. BMEcat feeds write them into the order details of each article in an ETIM class, a Brand Portal shows them when you include them, and bulk actions convert units on many products at once. One thing to set before the first feed: BMEcat requires an order unit on every article, so a product without one goes out as C62, the code for piece. Fill it in for each family, for example MTK for goods sold per square metre, and add a Quality Guard rule that holds back products without one.

No. Run one Brand Portal per dealer group or country. Each portal has its own range by category, family or filter rule, its own columns, languages and password and, if you want, its own pricing rules. Dealers browse, export to CSV or Excel and download a PDF datasheet per product.

Not the ETIM features. Features from a supplier's BMEcat file only fill attributes that are still empty, so a declared value your team corrected stays as it is. The mapping for each supplier is saved as a profile, so the next delivery imports without remapping.

Not directly. WISEPIM has no data-pool connection. It produces BMEcat 2005 files and feeds, custom XML and Excel exports, and you deliver those to a pool or platform in the way it accepts files.

Your ERP stays the system of record for orders, stock and costs. There is no ERP connector: product data comes in from ERP exports as CSV, Excel or XML, uploaded or delivered by link or FTP/SFTP, and the field mapping is saved for the next run. Higher plans add the REST API.

WISEPIM is free up to 100 products. Paid plans are priced by product count, and every plan includes unlimited users and every language. Web research starts on Growth and Quality Guard on Business.