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Glossary term

What is Product Catalog Management?

Definition

Product catalog management focuses on organising, maintaining, and updating product data across all channels. A PIM centralises this process to ensure accuracy, consistency, and timely changes. It supports better merchandising, quicker launches, and error-free omnichannel operations.

Catalog management controls assortment, record structure, and ongoing product-information changes. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take new fixtures and updated legacy items, maintain categories, lifecycle states, and approved record content, and prepare a consistent eligible assortment for delivery.

Product Catalog Management in an autonomous operation

  1. Step 1:

    Input

    New fixtures and updated legacy items

  2. Step 2:

    Product Catalog Management

    Maintain categories, lifecycle states, and approved record content

  3. Step 3:

    Outcome

    Prepare a consistent eligible assortment for delivery

Catalog management controls assortment, record structure, and ongoing product-information changes.