PartGap
Our product for parts manufacturers and distributors: it shows where vehicle applications and OE references are missing and which articles are missing from the range. With ProDevelop as data partner.
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DATA DRIVE AUTOMOTIVE
Where automotive practice meets data expertise.
30 years in the spare parts market, combined with data and new technologies. Data Drive Automotive builds solutions that help parts manufacturers, distributors and workshops in everyday business: better parts data, reliable mappings and, with PartGap, a product of our own.
At a glance
DATA FLOWConnecting data, industry experience and technology
Data sources, product logic and new technologies are brought together into one clear picture.
THREE PILLARS
What Data Drive Automotive does
Three things that belong together.
Data projects
Vehicle applications from part numbers, OE-to-IAM mappings, catalogue logic, inventory data for marketplaces, product images for parts without a photo. Projects with a clear result: a file, a table, a data set that people actually work with.
ServicesConsulting & implementation
When data, processes and new technologies need to come together: from the first assessment to a running system. Practical, without buzzwords.
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FROM PRACTICE
MANUFACTURER · MARKETPLACES
CATALOGUE · NEW MARKET
MANUFACTURER · PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
DISTRIBUTOR · INVENTORY DATA
Four projects, four results
Anonymised, but real. This is what the tasks that land at Data Drive Automotive look like.
From part numbers to matching vehicles
Starting pointA manufacturer knew the OE numbers for its articles, but did not have a complete list of the vehicles they fit. Marketplaces need exactly this list, otherwise the part is not found there.
What we didTogether with ProDevelop, we derived the matching vehicles including fitment criteria from the part numbers, ready for eBay, Amazon and the manufacturer's own shop.
ResultArticles that are found online, without maintaining vehicle data by hand.
Bringing the vehicles of two markets together
Starting pointA catalogue provider wanted to use European parts data in a market where the same vehicles have different names and different equipment.
What we didWe matched the vehicles of both markets step by step and gave every mapping a confidence level: what is certain, and what a person needs to check.
ResultThousands of verified mappings, each with a clear indication of how reliable it is.
Which part replaces which, with evidence
Starting pointIn a manufacturer's product management, checking which articles can replace each other was done by hand. A lot of effort, and later nobody knew why a decision had been made the way it was.
What we didA system that backs suggestions with evidence, explains discrepancies and learns from the team's decisions. This is where PAUL, the virtual product manager, came from.
ResultDecisions with reasons instead of gut feeling, traceable for the whole team.
Translating a warehouse into the language of marketplaces
Starting pointA distributor kept tens of thousands of articles under freely chosen names. Clear to people, useless to platforms.
What we didWe mapped every article to an industry standard and from there to the right marketplace category. With a clear rule: better to ask once than to map wrongly once.
ResultAn inventory that is found on marketplaces.
WHO IS BEHIND IT
From the parts trade to data
Boris Peters worked in the spare parts market for more than 30 years before founding Data Drive Automotive. He knows the problems we solve from the inside.
Distribution, manufacturing, workshop, parts data: he has been through all of these stations himself. That is why Data Drive Automotive builds solutions that work in day-to-day business, not just on a slide.
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