Producing Product Catalogs for Overseas Markets

Akagane conducts the following analyses to thoroughly understand client’s objectives and requirements and current processes as well as design an optimal workflow:
– Analyzing the data structure of a source catalog;
– Identifying variances in content among different countries (product specs, services, prices, deliveries, etc.)
– Evaluating the catalog specificiations and workflow for an overseas version based on the requirements for the target market.

Akagane designs the end-to-end production process including the tasks to be performed at the client’s site based on a client’s requirements. The process is usually to be split into the following 4 sub-processes based on the characteristics:
-Processes that benefit from industry expertise
-Processes involving translation
-Processes which can be automated by software and tech solutions
-Processes which require manual work that can be done effectively overseas

Akagane’s experts advises a client in the content conversion so as to have catalog content suitable to each target market. Through interviewing the clients’ stakeholders and studying the catalog contents in detail, Akagane identifies and advises the client of modifications required for each market.

Akagane’s translation service leveraging on its talented linguists with remarkable experiences in English and Asian languages is not limited to just providing superb translation services. In China and Thailand, Akagane’s linguists also play a key role as liaisons on behalf of the clients directly interfacing with their local personnel to work out the details of a project.

Akagane streamlines a client’s workflow by automating the processes:
– organizing data to enable a smoother translation process
– to edit finished translations to ensure consistent style or formatting
– to reduce the workload in the proofreading/editing at the client’s site
The automated processes will result in a significant reduction in the workload as well as high quality assurance in the finished products.

In the case of a project which may not be automatically processed, Akagane’s production bases in China and Thailand perform analog processing of large volume data. The optimal location is to be selected for a client on a project basis.