Glossary term
What is Product Data Onboarding?
Definition
The structured process of collecting, validating, normalizing, and importing product data into a PIM. Includes supplier uploads, automated checks, mapping templates, and enrichment workflows. Ensures every SKU enters the system clean, complete, and ready for downstream use.
Onboarding establishes usable identity, structure, and quality for incoming product records. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take a supplier file for a new lighting range, match identifiers, map fields, and check category requirements, and create eligible draft products and isolate exceptions.
Product Data Onboarding in an autonomous operation
- Step 1:
Input
A supplier file for a new lighting range
- Step 2:
Product Data Onboarding
Match identifiers, map fields, and check category requirements
- Step 3:
Outcome
Create eligible draft products and isolate exceptions
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