In the rapidly evolving automotive industry, staying competitive and profitable requires more than just offering quality products. To succeed, businesses need to prioritize efficiency when managing product data and ensuring seamless compatibility with a wide range of vehicles. This is where the Auto Care Association’s Data Standards come into play. These standards provide a structured way to manage and exchange automotive product data.

Time Is Money

The Auto Care Association’s Data Standards were created specifically for the automotive aftermarket industry to enable businesses to increase the speed, efficiency and accuracy of critical data transfers while lowering the operating costs for all business partners.

Auto Care Data Standards products currently available to the market:

• Aftermarket Catalog Exchange Standard (ACES)
• Product Information Exchange Standard (PIES)
• Internet Parts Ordering (IPO)
• Integrated Shop Standard (iShop)
• SuperSpec

Less Head Scratching, More Sales

Using both ACES and PIES allows for companies to be more efficient in communicating product fitment and product information for their products by utilizing a standardized communication method that is machine-readable (XML) by all trading partners. This removes duplicated communication and distribution effort, saves time and money, lowers supply chain costs, increases product introduction speed and speed to market, as well as contributes to increased sales, operational efficiencies and reduced returns.

One Industry. One Language.

Most companies in the automotive aftermarket industry in North America utilize the ACES and PIES data standards to do business. The adoption of these data standards is currently spreading through Mexico, Central and South America as businesses are seeing the efficiencies that the ACES and PIES data standards provide when it comes to communicating product information between data suppliers and data receivers. The data standards are utilized by manufacturers, remanufacturers, program groups, distributors, retailers and ecommerce companies, as well as third-party data solution providers.

Using Data Standards gives you back more time in your day, allowing you to focus more on business strategy and less on operational delays or product returns.

Start saving time today. Visit autocare.org/data-standards to get started or visit the Auto Care Resource Center #A41001 at AAPEX to learn more.