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Glossary term

What is Audit Trail in PIM?

Definition

The Audit Trail tracks every change made to product information, including who made the update, when it was made, and what data was modified. This ensures full transparency, accountability, and governance across product content workflows. It is crucial for compliance-heavy industries and for maintaining clean, trustworthy product data.

A useful audit trail records who or what changed a value, when, and why. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take an approved correction to a product dimension, record the old value, new value, source, and decision, and make the change traceable during a later review.

Audit Trail in PIM in an autonomous operation

  1. Step 1:

    Input

    An approved correction to a product dimension

  2. Step 2:

    Audit Trail in PIM

    Record the old value, new value, source, and decision

  3. Step 3:

    Outcome

    Make the change traceable during a later review

A useful audit trail records who or what changed a value, when, and why.