Shoe Sizes in SIM
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Pete
When Importing the SIM data from a US brand, could the person responsible for the hand curation of SIM data update the size information to reflect the UK sizing rather than the US Sizing? With the one size variation between US Mens & UK mens AND the two size variation between US Womens & UK Womens, it can cause a lot of confusion on the webside of the business.
There must be a lot of time being spent by individual retailers making these adjustments, whereas the curator could make these adjustments just once.
Neil McQuillan
This is a great idea Pete but I don't think it's technically possible. We have something like 12 million supplier partcodes in SIM and whilst we do a lot of reworking of data doing this accurately would be near impossible, suppliers add, remove and adjust data all the time and we'd have no easy way without the product physically infront of us to back check our work.
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Stefan Moody
Hi Pete,
I have this request in place (for some time now) to Export SIM basket before Import.
Please give it a vote if you think it would help at all with your SIM importing.
This would at least allow us to quickly edit all SIM data before it is imported.
With shoes we try to edit all our shoe descriptions and matrices to a 'UKxx/EUxx' format to make it as easy as possible for our customers (and to keep returns down!)
We've found that all manufacturers do have a conversion chart somewhere for their shoes.
If Citrus Lime could get their suppliers to conform to this as standard I'm sure that it would be a great help to everyone.
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Pete
Stefan Moody: That one has been closed though.
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Stefan Moody
Pete: Apparently it is too complex to set up an export to excel.
Another reason not to use SIM!
In the long term I find it much quicker and significantly more accurate to work directly from the supplier spreadsheet.
We use SIM to import in products rarely and with extreme care.
Every SIM import we do requires:
Two Item Detail wizards
One Price Wizard
One Supplier Info wizard
Manual check/edit of Matrices created.