This award category is intended to recognize excellent source data and proper use of the ACES^® and PIES^TM data standards. This award is separate from the “Receiver’s Choice Award.”  Each submission will be one ACES^® xml file (and its matching PIES^TM xml file). This award judges ACES^® and PIES^TM files on a variety of areas that ACPN deems as essential when creating best in class ACES^® and PIES^TM data. Please see the judging guidelines for this award for more details.

Submissions must meet these requirements 100% to be considered for judging:

Award Format

Judging

Judging of this award is done in-house by the Auto Care Association, utilizing the AutoCareVIP.com catalog assessment tool to process the ACES^® and PIES^TM XML files. All files will be assessed within a week of the submission. All ACES^® files will be validated against the most recent release of VCdb, Qdb and PCdb. All PIES files will be validated against the live Autocarevip.com database. The ACPN Leadership Council then takes the raw scoring information provided by the catalog assessment tool and applies weighted percentages to the general area scores to determine the winners of the award. The submission with the highest score is considered the winner. (In the case of a tie, the contenders will be re-examined to arrive at a subjective assessment of appropriate levels of over-mapping, effective use of the Qdb, appropriate use of the Note and MfrLabel tags, use of most recent versions of ACES^® and PIES^TM, effective use of the PAdb, and more)

Submission Requirements

-  Header is populated with Company, Sender Name, Sender Phone.

Based on if Company, Sender Name, Sender Phone are all populated or not.

-  Applications are invalid VCdb coded configurations free

Based on percentage of application records with invalid coded configurations. Over 1% will get a score of "0".

-  Applications are overlap/duplicate free

Based on percentage of application records that are overlaps/duplicates. Over 1% will get a score of "0".

The MFR Label is considered in differentiating applications.

 Qdb Level of Usage

Based on the percentage use of unique QualifierID 's versus the sum of unique QualifierIDs and unique fitment notes.

 All part numbers use valid PartTerminologyID's and PositionID combinations

Based on the percentage of part numbers that use valid PartTerminologyID's and PositionID combinations.

 All ACES^® part numbers are found in PIES™

Based on percentage of part numbers found in the ACES® file that are also found in the PIES^TM file.

 Header Segment

 Item Segment

 EXPI Segment

 Attribute Segment

10% - PIES^TM - Marketing Copy and Description Segment

10% - PIES^TM - Digital Asset Segment

5% - PIES^TM - Packaging Segment

• Gold - Old World Industries