13 February 2014

The BOSS Product Specific Attributes Standard

The BOSS Standards & Technical Committee exists to improve sales revenue and reduce business costs for all BOSS members by creating effective and common product data, technology standards and reducing the proliferation of alternative formats.

Members of the Committee are drawn from manufacturers, wholesalers, contract stationers, dealer groups, independent dealers and service providers. The work they do makes the information supplied to you, the production of catalogues, the indexing of products, the ease of access to find products, as well as the classification of new products, as simple and as straightforward as possible for everyone involved in the industry.

In recent months the Committee has been working on product specific attributes and e-commerce data requirement. A good example of attributes to describe a shredder are as follows:

Most office products dealers now have an internet site and for many this is now the single most important sales tool. The BOSS Standards and Technical Committee have been working to define product data formats and standards that take full account of the requirements of the internet. This will enable data providers and software houses to produce, load and display data in a common format and will make it much easier for smaller e-commerce solution providers to offer an excellent end user experience.

The BOSS Product Type Standard Attribute File has been developed for this reason by Evolution Software under the direction of the BOSS Standards and Technical Committee. We appreciate the input from David Brown and the Committee and would like your feedback on these attributes.

Michael Gardner
Chief Executive - BOSS Federation

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