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Product Information Management and Catalog Enrichment Pipeline

We built a PIM and catalog pipeline that ingests supplier data, normalises attributes and publishes rich product data to web, marketplaces and print. Catalog onboarding time fell from weeks to days.

B2B industrial supplies distributor, Europe (composite) · Ecommerce

Product Information Management and Catalog Enrichment Pipeline

Challenge

Each supplier used different taxonomies and units. A canonical attribute model, per-supplier mapping templates and confidence-based auto-approval kept the steward workload manageable.

Approach

Supplier feeds (CSV, Excel, BMEcat, APIs) land in a staging area where mapping rules and ML-assisted attribute extraction normalise units, categories and specifications. Data stewards work in a review UI with completeness scores per category. Approved products publish to an OpenSearch-powered storefront search with faceting, and to marketplace channels through channel-specific exporters.

Outcome

Illustratively ~50–70% faster supplier catalog onboarding Better faceted search and fewer no-results queries Consistent product data across web, marketplaces and print catalogs Completeness scores show stewards exactly where to focus Fewer customer queries about specifications

~50–70%Illustratively faster supplier catalog onboarding
✓Better faceted search and fewer no-results queries
✓Consistent product data across web, marketplaces and print catalogs

Problem solved

Hundreds of thousands of SKUs had inconsistent attributes, making search and filtering poor and new supplier onboarding painfully slow.

What we built

Supplier feeds (CSV, Excel, BMEcat, APIs) land in a staging area where mapping rules and ML-assisted attribute extraction normalise units, categories and specifications. Data stewards work in a review UI with completeness scores per category. Approved products publish to an OpenSearch-powered storefront search with faceting, and to marketplace channels through channel-specific exporters.

Benefits

Illustratively ~50–70% faster supplier catalog onboarding Better faceted search and fewer no-results queries Consistent product data across web, marketplaces and print catalogs Completeness scores show stewards exactly where to focus Fewer customer queries about specifications

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