IDEA Expands Industry Data Warehouse Standard, Mandating 43 Fields of Data

摘要

The Industry Data Exchange Association, Inc. (IDEA), Arlington, Va., announced an expansion to the Industry Data Warehouse (IDW) standard that governs the data included in the IDW database, which distributors throughout the electrical industry use to update product data from their suppliers. IDEA is an association jointly owned by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) to standardize and handle product data that drives distributors' internal information systems and supports efforts to provide customers with comprehensive e-commerce capabilities.