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Webinar Series: How to create value for your business and customers through product data management – Part 1

Session 1: Supplier Onboarding

Efficient – and easily manageable – onboarding processes can reduce the likelihood of an ineffective new product introduction, caused by lack of organisation for incoming product data.

Webinar Series: 

How to create value for your business and customers through product data management 

Session 1:

Supplier Onboarding

Can’t make it? Register and we’ll send you the recording!

Join Winshuttle and Start With Data on Wednesday 3rd November for the first part of our Webinar Series dedicated to product data management, and discover practical tips on how to optimise your supplier onboarding process.

During this live 30-minute session we will also welcome our industry expert and guest speaker – Nicki Young, President at OKdo, the new global technology business from Electrocomponents Group (ECM). Nicki is an experienced Digital & Technology leader with a demonstrated history of transformation, utilising data and modern technology practices. He is also a Member of the Innovation Board at CBI (Confederation of British Industry).

Takeaway: Learn the functionalities which measurably improve the efficiency, speed, and effectiveness of product data acquisition.

Hosted by Start with Data & Winshuttle

Ben Adams

CEO of Start with Data

Ben is the CEO & Founder of Start with Data, a people and business-led product data management consultancy. Ben and the team at Start with Data are thought leaders in the PIM and MDM space, having helped many retailers, distributors and manufacturers create customer value from better data management. 

Justin Thomas

Sales Director EMEA, Winshuttle

Originally from South Africa but with a truly international career behind him, Justin joined Winshuttle’s EMEA leadership team in 2018 as regional Director of Sales, working from the company’s UK office in Wimbledon.

With an extensive background in driving sales growth and business process management, Justin has over 17 years of sales leadership experience in enterprise software sales. Previous engagements include Sopheon software, where he worked with solutions to help customers streamline New Product Introduction (NPI) process, BizFlow, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Tasking, and Compliance software, and MBS, a global provider of agile marketing solutions for multichannel marketers. He’s also held various leadership positions as VP, MD and Chief Commercial Officer at Software AG, Appian, and Lumeon, where he helped expand the companies’ EMEA customer footprints.

Joined by industry leading speaker

Nicki Young

Nicki Young

President, OKdo

As President of OKdo, I am responsible for achieving our ambitious growth plans for our global technology based offering across Single Board Computing (SBC) & Internet-of-Things (IOT). Leading and building on the strong product portfolio and creating an ecosystem providing disruptive and innovative solutions.

I joined ECM in 2014 and have been instrumental in our digital and technology transformation, holding a number of leadership roles, most recently as CDO at RS Components scaling digital revenue from £500m to >£1bn whilst transforming the underlying technology to deliver daily change on a global scale. Prior to ECM, I worked at BT supporting the launch of BT sport and BTs movement into the handset market.

Sessions 2 & 3 coming up!

Don’t forget to register for the rest of the webinar series:

Session 2: Mastery and Enrichment (November 10th) 

Session 3: Syndication (November 17th)