Best Practices – Digital Asset Guidelines – Rev 4 www.autocare.org | www.autocarevip.com | technology@autocare.org 8 3.3 Digital Asset Data Delivery It is a requirement that anytime digital assets are sent to a receiver that they must be accompanied by a PIES file. If a supplier is unable to provide a PIES file to their trading partners, it is the supplier’s responsibility to consult with their trading partners for the non-PIES delivery requirements. PIES files do not contain actual digital assets. PIES only conveys meta-data about digital assets. There must be a side-channel for transmitting the actual data that makes up the digital asset files. This is typically done by compressing all of the referenced asset files into a single ZIP file or posting them to a shared FTP or other shared service that is agreed upon by both the supplier and receiver. The Digital Asset File Information Segment in the PIES standard is used to relay information about many different media types which support the item part number. The Digital Asset Sub-Segment of the Market Copy segment in PIES has been designed to relay information about any media types that support the related Market Copy Segment reference codes. Refer to the most current version of the PCdb for the PIES codes relevant to product images. The latest version of the PCdb can be downloaded at: https://autocarevip.com The PIES file delivered by the suppliers replaces the Digital Asset Data Delivery file that was used in the past to provide receivers data on the digital asset files.