{"id":3521,"date":"2023-08-31T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cimsource.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2025-07-29T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:34:00","slug":"chapter-8-cimsource-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/2023\/08\/31\/chapter-8-cimsource-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAPTER 8 | CIMSOURCE? Awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"ui-provider en cck big ccl ccm ccn cco ccp ccq ccr ccs cct ccu ccv ccw ccx ccy ccz cda cdb cdc cdd cde cdf cdg cdh cdi cdj cdk cdl cdm cdn cdo cdp cdq\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>SalesSupport Server &#8211; Vendor Managed Product Data #EMO2023<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Clean. Data. Delivered. <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The benefits of Vendor Managed Inventory* (VMI) are undisputed. Why not impress your customers with the same kind of service for the digital factory?<\/p>\n<p>All you need is a \u201cwarehouse\u201d for the product data and a \u201cshipping area\u201d with a \u201cpick and package\u201d \u2013 line to prepare and deliver the required data packages.<\/p>\n<p>The SalesSupport Server \u201e3S\u201c is just that. your distribution center for the digital world! <strong>Awesome!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a central information hub, 3S helps you to consolidate product information from various data sources into a single database. 3S puts you in the position to package and ship tool data to your customers via all conceivable information channels.<\/p>\n<p>True to the term \u201evendor managed\u201c , you, the tool supplier, are always in control of your data. You communicate directly with your customers. Your product data is and remains your IP at all times. 3S monitors which company received which information. 3S tracks who searched and downloaded your data.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PDB_SalesSupport-Server_2023-ueberarbeitet.pdf\">3S<\/a> puts the technologies of ToolsUnited into your hands. At the same time all data-intermediares like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolsunited.com\">www.toolsunited.com<\/a> or any other platform are taken out of the loop.<\/p>\n<p>*Fun Fact:<\/p>\n<p>To our knowledge VMI for cutting tools was first applied in 1996 at Mercedes-Benz, Stuttgart-Untert\u00fcrkheim. <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cim-aachen.de\/wissensdatenbank\/kooperatives-tool-management\/\">Read the background story<\/a>.<\/u><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3524\" src=\"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/vdi98-6-300x181.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SalesSupport Server &#8211; Vendor Managed Product Data #EMO2023 Clean. Data. Delivered. The benefits of Vendor Managed Inventory* (VMI) are undisputed. Why not impress your customers with the same kind of service for the digital factory? All you need is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235391239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235391239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5061,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}