Clean up a fragmented product catalog
When the same product appears under several names, search, pricing, and reports stop agreeing.
- Industry
- Marketplace example
- Goal
- One consistent product view that teams can review and maintain
These are illustrative engagement examples. They show how we would approach a problem, not a claim about a specific client or measured result.
The situation
A marketplace receives product data from sellers, suppliers, and older systems. Names, units, and categories do not line up. People see duplicate products in search, cannot compare prices reliably, and spend time reconciling reports by hand.
How we would help
We would start by profiling the records and agreeing on what a consistent product should look like. Then we would standardize names and attributes, match records that refer to the same item, and flag uncertain matches for human review. Search, pricing, and reporting would use a shared product identity, with a trail back to each source record.
What the team would own
The internal team would have clear rules for new data, a review process for uncertain matches, and documentation for changing categories and thresholds. The goal is a catalog they can keep improving as suppliers and product lines change.
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