Drop Management Introduction
PANDORA currently has 7 product drops per year. Each drop consists out of new products, which are being introduced to the sales channels. The introduction of new products via a drop usually also relates to a marketing campaign.
Currently the products and drops are maintained in the ERP solution of PANDORA, AX. This information is exported to PANDORA Library and the drops are created. This enables easy access, control and consistent output of drop information, product details of items in drops, grouping with related marketing assets and consistent messaging towards touch points.
Access Drop Management area
In PANDORA Library click on the top menu item “Management” and the sub-menu “Drop Management”. The drop management page will open. On the left side you will see all the drops that are available in PANDORA Library.
Manual Creation of drops
The PANDORA Library Project Manager & the Product Management/ Design can create new drops from the drop management window. A new drop can be created by manually entering all the values and then click on “save”
Manually created drops may be enriched in the same way as any other drop. The AX Importer will never touch them. There is no automatic assignment of products.
Search for Products
For a specific drop you may want to add new products. Click on the drop you want to edit the products. You see the button at the page “search for products”. When clicked a new pop-up will open where you can search for products (for example by entering a number). If a product is already part of a drop, you cannot select it again. The red icon before the image will illustrate that the product is already in a drop and the specific drop is listed as information to the product.
Click on the product that you wish to add and click on save. The product is now added to your drop.
Once you have added the Drop and the products to the drop it will be available in PANDORA Library in the following locations:
• The drop information is available in PIM Studio as a catalogue.
• The drop information is available in the PIM as a product section.
• The drop information is available in the DROP Management area as a classification
• The drop information is available in MEDIA as a classification under campaigns.