Perfion PIM · ManufacturersEvery variant, every spec ready before launch day
For manufacturers with technical products and many variants, Perfion PIM holds every specification, drawing and translation in one governed record, and turns it into datasheets, catalogues and channel content.
- Variants managed as item hierarchies, with values inherited from parent to child
- Datasheets and publications generated from live product data
- 10export formats for reports, from PDF to Excel
- 4items compared side by side in the web client
- 2versions of every item when you need them: draft and active
- ✕Engineering releases a new variant, but its specifications reach sales weeks later.
- ✕Shared values such as material or finish are re-entered on every variant.
- ✕Datasheets are rebuilt by hand whenever a specification changes.
- ✕Drawings, certificates and manuals sit in folders, not linked to the products they describe.
One record per product family in Perfion addresses all four.
Your products are complex. Your product data should not be.
A product family can run to hundreds of variants, each with its own specifications, drawings and documents, in several languages. The ERP holds the transactions, but not the story that sells the product.
Perfion models the family once. Shared values sit on the parent and flow down to every variant, so a change is made in one place.
Perfion complements your ERP; it does not replace it. The ERP keeps transactions, stock and finance, and Perfion holds the product information.
Book an assessment→Built for variants and specifications
Configured to your product structure, not forced into a fixed template.
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Families
Product families and variants
Products and their variants managed as item hierarchies. Move variants under a new parent as your range changes.
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Inheritance
Inherited and default values
Shared values pass from parent to child items. Default values pre-fill new items, so nothing starts empty.
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Item Creator
Variants created in bulk
The Item Creator creates many items at once by combining the values of selected features. Each combination becomes an item.
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Dependencies
The right specs on the right items
Item dependencies make a feature valid only for the items it applies to, so each product shows only its own specifications.
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Formulas
Names built from your data
Formulas compose display values, such as product names, from feature data. Related values show data like colour codes on other items.
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Compare
Variants compared side by side
Compare two to four items, see the differences highlighted, and copy values from one item to another.
Read the guide: Item Editor and Grids
Variants built from features
Pick feature values and watch the variants appear. This is how the Item Creator works: every combination you select becomes an item.
Choose feature values
Every combination of the values you select becomes a variant of the product family.
Name formula: [Family]-[Size]-[Finish]-[Voltage]
- FAM-250-ST-230250 mmSteel230 VInherits material, brand and warranty
- FAM-250-CT-230250 mmCoated230 VInherits material, brand and warranty
- FAM-400-ST-230400 mmSteel230 VInherits material, brand and warranty
- FAM-400-CT-230400 mmCoated230 VInherits material, brand and warranty
An illustration, not a live system. The product family, values and naming are examples. In Perfion, the features, values and name formula are yours.
Datasheets that update themselves
Reports and publications are generated from the product data in Perfion. Change a specification once, and every document that uses it is generated with the new value.
Read the guide: Reports and Publishing- Size400 mm
- FinishCoated
- Voltage230 V
- Rated power1.5 kW2.2 kW
- LanguagesEN · DE · FR
Specification changed once
- DatasheetUpdated
- Catalogue, chapter 3Updated
- Product exportUpdated
Illustration: values and documents are examples.
- Report designerDesign datasheets and reports on your own layouts, then generate them for any selection of items.
- Multi-chapter publicationsCatalogues with chapters, page numbers, indexes and booklet layout.
- Barcodes and embedded PDFsEAN-13 and UPC-A barcodes, and existing PDFs such as certificates embedded in a report.
- DOCX
- XLSX
- XLS
- RTF
- HTML
- MHT
- CSV
- Text
- Image
Regulation runs on data. Keep it with the product
Passports, packaging reports, safety sheets and certificates all draw on product data. Held in Perfion, it is maintained once and every document that uses it stays current.
Selling into the EU? Get the passport data in order
Under the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781), Digital Product Passports are being brought in category by category. The rules follow where a product is sold, not where it is made, so they reach exporters from India too. Batteries come first, under their own regulation (EU) 2023/1542, with the battery passport from 18 February 2027.
Perfion holds the data a passport draws on in the same record your datasheets come from: materials and their origin, carbon footprint, repair and recycling information, and certificates, with version history and an audit trail.
Perfion manages the passport data. Issuing the passport itself, such as its QR code, is a separate step, and we plan it with you in the assessment.
Packaging data
Packaging type, volume and recyclability recorded per product, ready for reporting under the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
Safety sheets and symbols
Safety data sheets and regulatory symbols kept up to date from the product data, so the documents change when the data does.
Datasheet history
Earlier versions of datasheets and other critical documents kept, so you can show what was published, and when.
Certificates per market
Local certifications and market-specific documents held with the product, for each market you sell in.
PLM, ERP and supplier data together
Engineering data from PLM, records from the ERP and data from suppliers brought into one record, instead of sitting in separate systems.
Private-label products
Private-label and own-brand variants managed in the same model as your standard range.
From engineering release to every channel
How a new variant moves from the ERP to the market with Perfion in the middle.
One variant, five steps to market
Every step works on the same record, so nothing is copied between systems.
Your flow will differ. The assessment maps your actual steps, systems and owners before anything is configured.
Map your flow in an assessment→- ConnectERP data in viewMaterial data from your SAP or Microsoft Dynamics ERP shown live in Perfion.ERP data in Perfion
- EnrichDraft versionSpecifications, drawings and descriptions added to a draft, while the active version stays live.Draft ready
- TranslateEvery languageContent prepared per language, with DeepL or Google Translate and spell checking.All languages
- ApproveActive versionThe draft becomes active. Item triggers can update statuses or regenerate exports.Ready to sell
- PublishEvery channelDatasheets, webshops and the partner portal updated from the same record.On the market
Perfion at work for manufacturers
Customer stories published by Boyum IT Solutions, the company behind Perfion. Each one links to the full story on Boyum’s website.
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Boyum IT customer story
Watson-Marlow
5 minto update a data sheet in 21 languages, down from 2–3 hours
5,300 part numbers, 40+ websites and 9,000 data sheets fed from one product record.
Read the full story on Boyum IT: Watson-Marlow (opens in a new tab)“Making the same change in Perfion takes 5 minutes – and the accuracy of our customer-facing data is much greater.”
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Boyum IT customer story
Louis Poulsen
50%less manual product data work
One record feeds B2B and B2C websites, data sheets, price lists and a 180-product catalogue in 12 languages.
Read the full story on Boyum IT: Louis Poulsen (opens in a new tab)“The investment in Perfion has been returned many times over.”
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Boyum IT customer story
AVK
50,000SKUs managed in one product record
Price lists and thousands of PDF data sheets generated with Perfion’s publishing module.
Read the full story on Boyum IT: AVK (opens in a new tab)“The ease of creating new fields and importing and exporting data gives us the ability to handle most things ourselves.”
Company names, quotes and results are as published by Boyum IT Solutions. BPAS was not involved in these projects.
See all Perfion customer stories on Boyum IT (opens in a new tab)Start with a product data assessment
A focused engagement with your product, marketing and IT leads.
- ReviewYour assortment, channels, languages and systems.
- RecommendA plain answer on whether a PIM is the right next step.
- PlanWhat it would take, if Perfion is the fit.
If Perfion is not the right fit, you will hear that from us too.
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