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3M at a glance

6% F&E

3 Meter 2,3millionen tonnes

>100Per Day

13

50

55.000and growing

70 > 200

8.100researchers

85VV

36

117,000+ 3.000+patents per

year

200

91,000 employees worldwide Operations in 70 countries and sales into 200

More than 55,000 products One third of our sales come from products developed within the past five years

You are likely to comeacross 3M Science more than 100 times every day

Approximately six per cent of our revenue is reinvested into research and development around the world

8,100 researchers worldwide 85 research and development facilities spanning 36 countries

More than 50 Customer Innovation Centres around the world

We have 117,000+ registered patents

Our scientists amass patents at an average of more than 3,000 per year

You are rarely more than three metres away from 3M Science

200 manufacturing facilities across 37 countries

More than 2.3 million tonnes of pollutants eliminated since 1975

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Introduction to our business groups

HealthCare

$6.0 billion

Safety &Graphics

$6.8 billion

$32.8 billion2018 revenue

Industrial

$12.3 billion

Electronics & Energy$ 5.5 billion

Consumer$4.8 billion

⚫ Class.Ing supports many companies in optimizing and validating product data for the digital era

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Company Profile… Good Data for Digital Processes!

Digitization

Data & Classification

Data Mapping

Data Transport

Data Quality

CLASSIFICATION

• Properties & Attributes• Master Classification• Upgrade & Downgrade• Expansion & Views

SOFTWARE• Web based ePIM• Modular Software

PURCHASE• Data Harmonization• Structure adaption

SALES

• Electronic Catalog• Data Quality & Data

Validation• Online Catalog• Paper Catalog &

Datasheets

DATAMANAGE-

MENT

INTE-GRATION

⚫ 3M's requirements are part of the market requirements ⚫ Class.Ing supports them on a daily basis for our customers

⚫ Transfer formats

⚫ Classification standards

⚫ Data content

⚫ Our tasks: Collecting and improving product data as well as provision for various digital channels

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Market Demands Product Data in Different Standards…one of them is eCl@ss

Description

Packaging Data

Media Data…

Customer specific Excel

BMEcat 1.2, 2005, 2005.1 (and different guidelines)

GS1 XML CIN (VERSIONS, TARGET MARKETS,

CUSTOMER NEEDS, UP TO GDSN)

PBSeasy

Digital User Experience

Consumer(Retail, DIY, FMCG…)

Healthcare(Hospitals, Buying Groups…)

Relevant Industry Standards

Classification Systems Delivery Format Involved BGs (Market Driven)

Electronics & Energy(Data Platforms, Distributors)

Industrial/Channel(Distributors, various Platforms)

A common way, within an industry, of sharing product content.

⚫ From the experience of many projects in which eCl@ss played a significant role, the following procedural model has been established

⚫ Controllable for and by the company

⚫ "Do not take the second step before the first one"

⚫ Sorting the products into the classification⚫ Usage of a Master Classification

⚫ Manage different versions

⚫ Mapping to other classification standards

⚫ Comparison with the market⚫ Example: eCl@ss workgroups

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eCl@ss Launch on Sale Side… Step by Step - 1 - Classification

Classification(Version, Mapping)

Properties(Version, Mapping)

Transfer Formats

Advanced Data

⚫ Properties⚫ Use of own product data as a basis

(No dependence on the standard)

⚫ Mapping from a Master Classification to other standards

⚫ Level of fulfillment is important

⚫ Exchange formats⚫ Electronic data is not only eCl@ss (or ETIM, UNSPSC)

⚫ It is master data, packaging data, media data, etc.

⚫ >> Challenge should not be underestimated

⚫ Extended product data⚫ Example: eCl@ss Advanced

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eCl@ss Launch on Sell Side… Step by Step - 2 - Property, Exchange Format, and Advanced

Classification(Version, Mapping)

Properties(Version, Mapping)

Transfer Formats

Advanced Data

⚫ Why classification mapping?⚫ An own company-specific internal data source independent of standards

⚫ Mapping to a standard master classification (eCl@ss)

⚫ Mapping to other standards (use existing mappings)

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Usage of eCl@ss as a Master Classification… Mapping to Other Standards

UNSPSC

ETIM

GPC

eCl@ss basedMaster

Classification

Companyspecific

version

Digital User Experience

eCl@ss Master Classification

Industrial/Channel & Healthcare(Distributors, various Platforms)

Operations Self Serve

Increasing Demand of Product Data Standards in Industrial Markets

⚫ Different perspectives on product data

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Optimization of Company Product Data… Usage of an adequate Software >> Class.Room

Company classification

Standard eCl@ss classification

Company attributes

Classification Attributes / Properties Additional Data

Packaging data

MultilanguageDifferent taget markets

eCl@ss properties

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Challenges – eCl@ss & Industry Standards

A logical grouping of

products

What data needs to be

sent to customers

Challenges:• No match of 3M attributes and

values regarding standard• Limited in Marketing ‘freedom’

of permitted values• Not aligned attribute & value

structures• Measurement of classification

completness• Prio of classification features

within classification group

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Optimization of eCl@ss

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Digital User Experience

Standard report Customer specific report Industry standard report

Customer Expectations

“Customer requests all available PIM data

from 3M”

“Customers provides 3M with

a specific excel or text template”

“Customer requests ETIM (BMECat),GS1 or eCl@ss”

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⚫ The first goal has been reached: Good data based on classification for digital processes!

⚫ But what are the next steps (in general)?

⚫ Class.Ing offers many solutions and know how!

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Future Trends… Next Steps to Digitization

eClass AcceleratedFast entry of

eCl@ss elements into the standard

Retrieval of current catalog data

Retrieve articles via the website in catalog

formREST web service

Competition Database

Articlemanage-ment with

competitor data

TendersManagement and

processing of service specifications

Good data for digital processes!

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