Now, aftermarket industry takes product catalog management as very serious factor and thus quickly moving to make it more standardized. As a result of this valiant step taken by AAIA,auto care industry has been introduced toadvanced PIES and ACES applications. It makes the industry more organized and productive.

The Aftermarket Council on Electronic Commerce (ACED) finalized the Product Information Exchange Standard (PIES) in August 2000. It has been developed to define product attributes of the aftermarket industry. It can outline over 140 different automotive attributes such as brand ID, description, price, dimensions, weights, NAFTA, UPC and HAZMAT, etc. The PIES standard developed in flexible format that enables frequent changes as per the data delivery requirements.

To execute the ACES validation process using ACES XML validator tools, you need to upload ACES XML data file and have to select PIES/ACES Standard. Used tool will come up with final output and also inform you about any incompatibility if found. It helps you to find out wrong information from the huge database of information within few minutes and users can fix errors without any hassle.