The Shimano article register, without retyping

Components and spare parts are fetched from Shimano product data and added with the right article numbers and names.

A register that is too large to maintain by hand

Shimano is the supplier whose article register becomes unmanageable fastest. Components, spare parts, compatible variants and parts that differ by a single character in the article number. Creating all of it by hand is not a question of ambition but of time.

We fetch the product data from Shimano and add it to your register with article numbers, EAN codes and names in place.

That means a spare part can be found in the POS while the customer is standing at the counter, instead of someone leafing through a PDF or calling the distributor.

What the data holds

Spare parts make different demands than bikes: the hard part is identification, not description.

Article numbers in the supplier's own notation, which customers often quote themselves.

EAN codes, so the part can be scanned straight into the POS.

Names that keep variants apart instead of collapsing them into one.

Specifications that determine what the part fits.

Model year after model year

The Shimano range changes per model year, and that is where a hand-kept register starts giving the wrong answers.

New articles enter the register as soon as they appear in the supplier's data.

Discontinued articles can be flagged rather than simply vanishing.

Names are kept in the same format year after year.

You get a register that can be searched, both in the workshop and on the web, without anyone having to remember what an article was called last season.

Spare parts findable by article number or EAN.

A register that follows the model year changes.

Fewer calls to the distributor to verify an article.

The workshop should find the part, not go looking for it.

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