Best Product Information Management (PIM) Systems

Turn product data into commerce & AI momentum - with Europe’s most experienced & awarded PIM partner.

WHY PIM SYSTEMS ARE CRUCIAL FOR EVERY BUSINESS

Great product information is the quiet engine behind every high-performing commerce operation.

✅ When it’s right, your teams launch faster, your channels stay in sync, and your customers make confident decisions.

❌ When it’s wrong, everything downstream suffers – from conversion and returns to SEO, compliance, and internal productivity.

IMPACT has spent more than a decade helping brands, retailers and manufacturers get product data right. With 35+ certified PIM consultants and 60+ production implementations across Struct PIM, inriver PIM, Bluestone PIM, and Akeneo PIM we’ve built a depth of craft few European partners can match – and we bring it to every engagement, regardless of platform.SaveSave

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Brands we've helped with PIM

How can IMPACT help you with PIM?

We handle the entire PIM project lifecycle – from first scoping workshop to long-term optimisation – and we meet clients where they are.

Some partners come to us for a targeted accelerator; others trust us end-to-end across strategy, implementation, integration, data governance, AI, and agentic commerce.

1) Strategy & PIM platform selection

We start with the business problem, not the platform.

Using benchmarks from 21 production environments across FMCG, retail, manufacturing, medical devices, B2B industrial and soft goods, we help you choose the right PIM for your data model, channel mix, integration landscape, language coverage, and team size.

When build-vs-buy is on the table, we make that call honestly.

2) Data model & PIM taxonomy design

Field counts, controlled vocabularies, entity structures, localisation strategy, completeness scoring, variant inheritance, golden-record rules – the unglamorous foundations that decide whether your PIM pays back.

Our baselines come from real deployments (from 50-field lean models to 750-field superset references), so we right-size from day one.

3) Implementation & integration of PIM

ERP, DAM, PLM, eCommerce, marketplaces, GS1/GDSN, NOBB, print publication, distributor portals, supplier onboarding – we’ve built these patterns dozens of times.

We deliver with dedicated accelerators for Struct PIMinriver PIMBluestone PIM, and Akeneo PIM that shorten time-to-value and enforce the quality bar from sprint one.

4) AI for PIM – and PIM for AI

AI is where PIM is going – and where we’re leaning in hardest.

Automated content generation, AI translation and localisation, image tagging, category classification, ETIM mapping, supplier data enrichment, duplicate detection, and LLM-powered completeness rules.

We build these into the PIM, so your editors spend their time on judgment calls, not copy-paste.

5) Compliance, sustainability and DPP

EU Digital Product Passport (ESPR), CSRD-adjacent data flows, GS1/GDSN validation, ETIM classification, and category-specific compliance (food safety, medical devices, building materials).

We treat compliance as a data problem – which means PIM is usually the right place to solve it.

6) Operate, optimise, evolve your PIM

Post-go-live is where most PIM programs either compound or stall.

Our operations practice keeps your environment healthy, your integrations adapting, and your data quality trending in the right direction – month over month.

PIM platforms we work with

We’re platform-literate, not platform-neutral. We recommend the system that fits your business - and we’re deeply certified on the ones where we can deliver the best outcomes.

Why IMPACT as pim partner?

  • Europe’s largest PIM practice by production footprint. 60+ implementations across Struct PIM, inriver PIM, Bluestone PIM, and Akeneo PIM; benchmarks from 21 live environments feed every new engagement.
  • Industry depth, not just tech depth. FMCG, retail and furniture, manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, medical devices, B2B industrial, foodservice and soft goods.
  • One team (and hybrid teams), end-to-end. Strategy, data modelling, integration, change management, AI, and operations under one roof – 400+ specialists across 11 offices in the Nordics, UK, Iberia, Central Europe, and India. We work on-premise, and through hybrid teams according to your need.
  • Accelerators that compress risk. Platform-specific accelerator packages, reference data models by vertical, and a “copy-from” approach that lets new clients start from the closest-matching production environment rather than a blank canvas.
  • Platform-honest advice. We’re deeply certified on multiple platforms, so our recommendation reflects your business — not our backlog.

IMPACT are a strategic force in driving transformational PIM outcomes at scale. Our collaboration has led to some of Struct’s most significant projects to date, and we are proud to continue this strategic partnership with IMPACT as a Preferred Partner in 2026.

Mike PedersenChief Sales Officer at Struct PIM

How an engagement typically looks

  1. Discovery and scoping. 1–2 weeks. Product, channel, and integration landscape, data-model baseline from the closest-matching industry reference.
  2. Platform selection (if open). Scored against your actual data model, integrations, and team—not a generic vendor matrix.
  3. Implementation sprints. Typical small engagements run 3–4 weeks; medium engagements 6–8 weeks; large enterprise programs 12–20+ weeks.
  4. Integration, migration, and cutover. ERP, DAM, commerce, and syndication channels wired and validated; data migrated with automated quality gates.
  5. Run and optimise. Completeness scoring, governance cadence, AI enrichment rollout, new channels, new markets.

Book a PIM scoping call

A 30-minute session with one of our senior PIM consultants. We’ll listen, share relevant benchmarks from similar engagements, and tell you honestly whether we’re the right partner for you.

Reach out to Sune Rasmussen, Manager, Master Data & PIM, to book a call.

Sune Rasmussen, Manager Master Data PIM