Price import

In addition to the interface for importing prices for the main supplier, since the 1980s, interfaces have been created for each of the approximately 50 other spare parts suppliers; these interfaces were used to automatically import price and product information to the spare parts database. The suppliers provide the data in different file and data formats and with non-standardized attributes. Analysis and documentation of this process that has grown up over time is expected to describe the actual process, risks and deficits, identify and structure rules, record all the imported data and its origin, as well as identify special features. The results form the starting point for standardizing and restructuring the process, including a definition of a standardized interface. Overall, the effort involved in importing prices should be reduced, together with any possible direct and indirect financial losses due to late transfer of purchase prices.