Clean up your spreadsheets before they fail you

Are you still working with information about your products using spreadsheets? You are not alone. Spreadsheets are the most commonly used tool for maintaining product information - more than one third of businesses still use them. The only problem is that spreadsheets do a poor job of managing product information.





Tables do not do many critical tasks.





Here are just a few important tasks that spreadsheets don't do well:





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The best part about automation is that it allows you and your team to focus on your real work - effective merchandising to increase sales.





The article was prepared by the OpenPIM team - an open and free PIM system.








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