Industry Event
EDA Data Quality Awards S
Recognising the signifi cance of product data excellence for the UK’s wholesale sector.
ix businesses celebrated receiving an EDA Data Quality Award recently as part of the Association’s Annual Digitalisation Forum in the City of London. Presenting the Awards were Edgar Aponte, CEO at Rexel UK, and Richard Appleton, the EDA’s Head of Digitalisation.
This year’s winners were drawn from amongst the 70+ leading manufacturer brands subscribing to the EDATA data pool to share their product information with multiple wholesalers. Every EDA Member Wholesaler has free access to EDATA, and this year an additional Award was given to Worcester Electrical Distributors Ltd in recognition of their early adoption and integration of the data pool into their business. This year’s EDA Data Quality Award winners are:
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Overall Data Quality Award <1,000 SKUs D G Controls
Overall Data Quality Award 1,000 – 2,000 SKUs CMP Products
Overall Data Quality Award >2,000 SKUs
Atkore Unistrut & Marco Most Complete ETIM data
Gold Standard Product Data Certifi cate Presentations
Electrium Sales (A Siemens Company) Data Maintenance Award
Worcester Electrical Distributors EDATA Early Adopter
100 delegates attended the EDA’s Digitalisation Forum & Data Quality Awards, hearing presentations from expert speakers on a range of digitalisation topics, including a session and panel discussion on the potential impact of Artifi cial Intelligence (AI) on the UK’s electrotechnical sector delivered by AI expert and innovator, Paul Bratcher.
In addition to the main Awards, eight businesses received a commendation for achieving Gold Standard product data in the EDATA data pool, bringing the total number of manufacturers with Gold Standard product data to 39: Aurora Lighting, Atkore Unistrut & Marco, CMP Products, Deta Electric Co, Electrium Sales (A Siemens Company), Elta Trade, Greenbrook and Olympic Fixings.
Margaret Fitzsimons, CEO at the EDA, said: “The
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EDATA data pool is one of the key pillars of the EDA’s work and we have experienced substantial growth since we launched in 2020. In October this year we sailed past the 200,000 SKUs live in EDATA but we never take our eyes off the ball when it comes to data quality. Wholesalers, and their contractor customers, depend on easy access to enriched product information to drive sales and today our Awards recognise the fantastic work that businesses of all sizes are putting in to supporting wholesaler businesses.” Richard Appleton, head of digitalisation at the EDA and board director at EDA Data Services added: “Getting product data right is not an easy or overnight job. The EDATA team at the EDA works with manufacturers of all shapes and sizes, and we are seeing increasing recognition that providing excellent product data is central to their service both to wholesalers and the sector as a whole. Today’s awards give us the opportunity to congratulate those businesses that are setting the standard for the sector.”
The EDA
Serving and representing the UK’s electrical wholesale sector for over 100 years, the Electrical Distributors’ Association (EDA) is a membership organisation for the UK’s electrical wholesale sector. Launched in 1914 as the Electrical Wholesalers’ Federation (EWF), the Association refocused and rebranded in 1998 as the EDA. Membership is available to wholesalers, whilst manufacturers can join as affi liated members.
EDA Data Services is an independent not-for-profi t business set up by the EDA to oversee the EDATA service. EDA Data Services’ independence means that manufacturers and wholesalers who are not members or affi liates of the EDA can use its services.
www.eda.org.uk Data Quality Award Winners 2023
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