PIM for Plumbing, Heating and HVAC

Yes. WISEPIM ships the ETIM 10.0 model, the current release. You adopt the classes you sell as product families, WISEPIM suggests the matching class per family and feature per attribute, and you confirm them. Each article then gets a conformance score. ETIM International plans ETIM 11.0 for 1 December 2026; a project can switch its adopted classes to a newer release once that release is available in WISEPIM.

Take the ERP line Ball valve 1/2" FF PN25 brass. The article sits in the product family you linked to the ETIM class for ball valves, so it carries that class's features. You or AI fill them from the source line and the manufacturer file: 1/2 inch for the connection size, internal thread on both ends, PN 25 for the pressure rating and brass for the body material. A template string builds short text 1 from those values, and a Quality Guard length rule confirms it fits in 40 characters. The datasheet sits on the article as a file attribute, and the BMEcat feed writes it all out with the ETIM codes.

ETIM codes are the same in every language, so a value you pick once means the same thing in every market. When you adopt a class, its features and values come in with the descriptions the loaded ETIM release carries for your project's language, with English as the fallback. National translations come from the ETIM organisation in each country, so ask us in a demo which languages are loaded for your release.

Yes. Feed Hub writes BMEcat 2005 with the ETIM class and features per article, plus order units, prices and images, and article references for accessories and successors. You set the supplier and catalog header once, pin the ETIM release and run the feed on a schedule. After every run, Feed Hub shows how many articles the feed wrote and warns you when articles were skipped because their family has no ETIM class yet, so you know what to classify next. The importer also reads BMEcat files from your own manufacturers.

Not today. There is no 2BA connector, no ETIM xChange export and no ready-made DATANORM or FAB-DIS template. WISEPIM exports BMEcat 2005 with ETIM features, CSV, Excel and custom XML. Ask your data pool or wholesaler which format they accept, and bring their specification to a demo so we can check how close an export gets.

Yes. Keep short text 1 and 2 as attributes, build them from your specs with a template string, and add a Quality Guard rule with a maximum length of 40 characters. Every article that breaks the rule is flagged, so you can shorten the text before the feed goes out instead of a wholesaler cutting it off.

Link them on the article. Accessory, replacement and related are relation types, and bundle items carry a quantity. The BMEcat feed writes accessories as accessories and replacements as follow-up articles. For a spare part that fits several models, a multi-value attribute such as Fits model keeps the list structured and checkable.

Yes. Add file attributes for datasheets, installation manuals, declarations of conformity or approval certificates, and keep media in the media library. Each document then sits with its article instead of in a shared folder, and a Quality Guard rule can flag every article that has no datasheet yet.

Send them a Brand Portal link. They browse your catalog and download it as CSV or Excel, or as a PDF datasheet per product, and when you allow it, dealers who use WISEPIM can import it into their own project. Every download comes from your current data, so nobody works from last year's file. Wholesalers that need a fixed format get a scheduled feed instead.

No. WISEPIM works as a layer next to it. Akeneo syncs both ways. Other PIMs and ERPs exchange data with WISEPIM by file or through the REST API on the Pro plan and up. Your ERP stays the system of record for orders, stock and costs.

AI never adopts an ETIM mapping on its own: every suggestion waits for a confirmation. When AI fills missing features, it can only choose values ETIM permits for that feature, and it leaves a feature empty when the product data does not say. Quality Guard rules check the result, and you can send changes through the Review queue before anything is exported.

That depends on your source data. Most of the time goes into confirming the class mapping and reviewing specs for the first product group. Your current exports keep running while you move. To see how much work your data needs, send one file to the free data readiness check.