Sonepar Group is a leading European B-to-B distributor of electrical products, solutions and related services. Sonepar launched few years ago a corporate project to digitalize and classify electrical products based on the ETIM standards, using a centralized application and database.
 
Coperon mobilized its content services team and supported three entities of the Group, Italy, France & Canada. Tens of thousands of references were enriched to date for Sonepar.

Through 170 operating companies with 2,800 branches and 1,000 on-site customer branches, Sonepar Group has developed an offer that addresses national market needs in 44 countries. In 2018, Sonepar achieved sales for €22.4 billion. To know more about Sonepar click here.

Why Coperon Technologies?

Manufacturers and retailers permanently face an overwhelming challenge in managing their product data. With limited resources, they are required to maintain complex databases with technical data, images, drawings and an array of related documents to keep their databases, online catalogs and eCommerce platforms up to date.
Coperon Technologies data entry services rely on an experienced team that handled throughout the years, hundreds of thousands of references, for different industries committed to deliver the required quality in the shortest delays.

Customized services to meet your needs

Coperon practical experience led us adopt a flexible approach that meets the context and requirements of every single client. Whether data is provided as paper catalogs, or in any type of electronic document, Coperon Data Entry team can handle the data to re-enter it in the required data structure.
If you need to be in control of the data entry process, Coperon Data Entry team can even work directly on your systems to enrich and complete the data. You will be able to monitor our work, measure progress and validate immediately the work achieved.
By end, each data entry project is different and that makes your project unique.

Our Advantages

• Experienced Data Entry personnel
• Ability to handle any size of job and to scale up the team for larger projects
• Competitive pricing
• Respect of agreed delays for project finalization
• Knowledge of European languages

Coperon is the perfect partner for Sonepar Italy to classify and enrich our electronic catalogue of lighting products. They always guarantee good quality of data and respect for deadlines.

Company profile
XAL produces luminaires and lighting systems for retail, office, hotel and residential spaces. XAL USA was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in New York City. The production facility, research and development, and customer service center is based in Oxford, Connecticut.
They pride themselves on European design, manufactured in America.

Project objectives

- Provide enriched product information to XAL USA clients and distributors
- Faciliate product search to assist catalog visitors in finding the right product to their applications
- Provide the possibility to generate online technical spec sheets that reflect the latest change.

Coperon solutions & services

- Design of a products database that reflects best XAL USA rich information
- Enrich the compete database with the latest products information based on XAL USA's latest catalogs
- Develop a complete online catalog that proposes different search patterns to respond to the variety and expectations of XAL USA clients and distributors.

Global benefits achieved

- A dynamic online catalog reflecting the latest product updates
- A parameterized search for a guided and optimized navigation that assist site visitors to get to the right product for their application
- A rich product data sheet that includes a maximum of product properties, images and attachments
- A possibility to compare similar products side by side and identify the differences.

Company profile

Romance Time is a multi-brand world of fashionable watches and accessories.

Business situation: The requirements
Create an online presence for the brand: Setup and activate all social media networks.

Project objectives

- Establish an online presence 
- Increase exposure to the social media pages
- Increase engagement with followers and potential clients

Coperon solutions & services

- Channels creation
- Community management
- Monitor and review the strategy results

Global benefits achieved

- Brand exposure established and maintained
- Coherent brand voice tone on all networks
- Online campaigns launched

Working with Coperon was of high level of professionalism, reliability and a great team support!

Company profile

Born from history and raised by tradition, Latourba is a haven for the soul and a gateway into the earth’s secrets. As artisanal methods blend with viticulture and historical knowledge to craft a wine like no other, Latourba’s single vineyard offers its visitors a lot more than wine to quench their thirst; it brings the earth’s spirit to life, giving it taste, texture and a rich palette of color, inviting anyone to return to nature’s serene and warm embrace.

Business situation: The requirements
Create an online presence for the brand: Setup and activate all social media networks.

Project objectives

- Establish an online presence 
- Increase exposure to the social media pages
- Increase engagement with followers and potential clients

Coperon solutions & services

- Channels update
- Community management
- Monitor and review the strategy results
- Content creation and execution

Global benefits achieved

- Brand exposure established and maintained
- Coherent brand voice tone on all networks
- Online campaigns launched
- Strategy to reach local and international audiences in different markets

Company profile
The growth and evolution of Flos company started since 1971.
Today Flos is an international organization that offers a complete range of residential, commercial and even custom-made lighting products that can seamlessly integrated in any environment...

Business situation: Flos requirements
The need for an improved web site that handles the constant evolution of the company and its products became a must.

Project objectives

- Implement a multi-lingual centralized corporate products database.
- Provide site visitors with an access to rich product information.
- Reflect on Flos website, in the best way possible, the emotions that drive the brand and its products.

Coperon solutions & services

- Deployment of iPartner Data Manager, an efficient products database management solution.
- Integration in Flos online catalog of iPartner Product Expert, Coperon parameterized search engine.
- Configuration and delivery of a Content Management Solution to manage Flos corporate website.
- Complete dedicated support in the management of the site content, products and corporate info.

Global benefits achieved

- Up-to-date online products data, permanently maintained to reflect the latest products changes.
- Intuitive and logical approach to get to the desired lighting fixture.
- Online dynamic generation of the online product sheets that reflects the most recent product properties.
- Hassle-free maintenance of the online data, through a complete outsourcing of the data entry work to Coperon.

We have chosen Coperon as our principal technology partner for management of our product data and web communication.

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LUCITALIA MILANO, result from the merge of two historical Italian lighting companies, Ghidini and Lucitalia, offers a complete range of internal and external lighting fixtures. Since each brand managed its own catalog and properties denomination, it was hard for the new company to align and standardize product information across brands. Like any other lighting company, GHIDINI was also concerned about single product information that is disseminated across the company, requiring a lot of efforts to consolidate in order to generate a detailed product datasheet or a catalog.

• Implementation of one global database that centralizes products from both brands/catalogs,
• Standardization of properties and values for both brands,
• Advanced users profiling to limit access to the catalogs,
• Utilization of the final database for online and offline product information sharing.

HOW WE DID IT 
Coperon analyzed the two catalogs' structures and submitted a unified data model for validation. Existing properties and values were reviewed, cleaned and unified. Automatic procedures populated the database required for the implementation of the new LUCITALIA MILANO product information management system, Coperon iPartner. The database, once imported, was reviewed and completed when required, by Coperon content team.
 
Specific functionalities were provided to simplify and assist the users in their daily update: content copy from one product to another, automated graphical material (images, icons…) naming and linking with products, advanced users access restriction to products information …
 
Coperon product information management system, iPartner, was deployed locally and interfaced with LUCITALIA MILANO ERP system. Once validated, information is published on LUCITALIA MILANO corporate website while structured product information can be locally generated on demand for the generation of the products' labels, for specific reporting needs or else.

GLOBAL ACHIEVED BENEFITS

• Unified and up-to-date products data, permanently maintained to reflect the latest products changes,
• Product management system integrated within the product life cycle,
• Hassle-free maintenance of the products data, through a complete outsourcing of the data entry work to Coperon.

WHY COPERON TECHNOLOGIES

• Proven experience in the design and implementation of online products catalog for the Lighting industry,
• Readiness to customize the solutions to cope with Lighting clients specific needs,
• Confidence in a professional lighting industry expert,
• Ability to provide tools that can scale up as the business grows.

Coperon is a perfect partner for a complete outsourcing of our corporate e-initiative. They provide a complete span of services that simplifies communication and support!

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Coperon è il partner perfetto per la gestione in outsourcing dei processi di comunicazione aziendale. Forniscono una gamma completa di servizi che semplificano la comunicazione ed il supporto migliorandone l’efficacia.