Over 50 years of experience with plastics has made the FRANK Group a leading system provider in piping and apparatus engineering. Technical development and specialization have allowed the group to grow to nine partner and subsidiary companies. With complete systems for industry, gas and water supply and the waste water sector, the company offers internationally mature solutions. FRANK GmbH is an owner-managed company in its second generation.

The crossbase price update program is used to update InDesign files with prices. The automation is based on a market-specific price file with article reference, which is read in by crossbase and applied to selected documents. The price update can be carried out in TAB-separated texts as well as in standard and cross tables.

For the price update, the InDesign book documents are selected in a first step. In a second step, the user selects the price file. He then defines the column number that contains the price information. In a final step, the actual price update is carried out at the touch of a button. The program opens the individual documents of the selected books, determines the article numbers and exchanges the corresponding prices.

With regard to the quality of the data maintenance process, the logging of the price updates performed plays an important role: For example, it is logged which prices were updated, which prices were lower than before, which prices are identical, which articles were missing in the price file and which articles were missing in the catalog. This makes it possible to eliminate errors in the assortment and pricing process.

The possibility of setting up a PIM, MAM and cross-media solution via individual modules in manageable cost steps was an important decision criterion for FRANK GmbH.