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title: "Shopware PIM case study: LEPPER marine"
description: "Case study: how LEPPER marine maintains around 24,000 boat equipment products with PIM for Shopware. 100 products in 10 minutes instead of half a day."
url: https://pim-shopware.de/en/case-study-lepper-marine.html
language: en
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# Shopware PIM case study: how LEPPER marine creates 100 products in 10 minutes
LEPPER marine has been selling boat and ship equipment for around twenty years, from V4A screws to navigation systems. Two people maintain around 23,950 products. Since PIM for Shopware went into use, around 8,500 new products have gone online.

## Starting point: manual creation and CSV imports from Excel and Access
Before the PIM, LEPPER marine created products either by hand or via CSV import from Excel and Access. Which route was taken mostly depended on the value of the item.
Variant products took the most time: first create the properties as variant options, then the parent product, then generate and assign the variants. The Shopware import can do this too, but the preparation is cumbersome. LEPPER marine has used Shopware since version 3 and found that importing and maintaining data has not become easier over the years.

## Why LEPPER marine chose the PIM
Three things were decisive: the intuitive interface, the familiar field names from Shopware and the straightforward import, for example for ad hoc price adjustments.

## How LEPPER marine works today
In daily work these functions are at the centre:

## An example from daily work
Reading in and processing original supplier price lists used to take around 15 minutes of preparation. Today it happens right away. And creating 100 new products used to take about half a day, today it takes 10 minutes.

## Before and today

### Before
- Products by hand or via CSV from Excel and Access
- Variant options, parent product and variants in separate steps
- Around 15 minutes of preparation for each supplier price list
- About half a day for 100 new products

### Today with the PIM
- Straightforward CSV import with familiar Shopware fields
- Variants generated directly from properties
- Price lists read in and processed right away
- 10 minutes for 100 new products
Reading in and processing original supplier price lists: before, 15 minutes of preparation, today ad hoc. Creating 100 products: before maybe half a day, today 10 minutes.

## The benefits in daily work
- Better data quality
- Faster range expansion
- Around 8,500 new products online since starting with the PIM
- Supplier price lists right away instead of after 15 minutes of preparation

## Introduction and support
After a consultation by phone, PIM for Shopware was installed and ready to use within 30 minutes. New wishes keep coming up from daily use, but for now the team is first making full use of the existing features.
“Every Shopware user with an extensive product range, of course.”

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