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Notes from the gate
Practical articles on opening product data: portals, feeds, regulation and translation — written for the people who run the catalog.
7 min readE-commerce
10 practical tips for Open Data with industrial product data
How to publish industrial product data that machines can actually use: selection rules, units, identifiers, licensing, versioned feeds and change logs.
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7 min readCompliance
Digital Product Passport: what manufacturers should prepare now
Passport rules arrive per product group. The mechanism does not: identifiers, structured fields, access levels, history. What to build first.
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8 min readProduct data
ETIM and BMEcat: what technical wholesale expects
Wholesalers filter by ETIM features. What that means in practice: class assignment, value lists, units, completeness per profile and delta deliveries.
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8 min readMarketing & localization
Translating product data: delta, TM, terminology, and AI
Why catalog translation costs more than it should, and the mechanisms that fix it: segment hashing, deduplication, memory, termbase — with AI in its place.
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7 min readPurchasing
Supplier onboarding: from Excel attachments to validated data
Why supplier Excel templates fail at scale, and how validation at submission plus a review queue move correction effort to the party with the answers.
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6 min readSales
Why your sales reps show outdated PDFs — and how to fix it
Reps use old PDFs because offline files are reliable. What a sales portal must do: relationship-scoped access, export on the spot, one shared record.
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8 min readIT & architecture
Your portals should outlive your PIM contract
PIM-native portals die with the PIM. A canonical layer plus a migration bridge lets you change the system underneath without touching a single channel.
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6 min readProduct data
Why you need a customer portal when your PIM already exports
Exports are a delivery mechanism, not an access model. What a customer portal adds: entitlements, live data, self-service and a record of every download.
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