What are the Challenges of E-commerce Product Catalog Management

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What are the Challenges of E-commerce Product
Catalog Management
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• E-commerce catalog is the backbone of every
  e-commerce platform. Product catalog management
  is the strategic process of managing e-commerce
  product which ensures quality data all over your
  sales channel. It helps to increase your business
  as customers get all your product descriptions
  and images they need to make a purchase decision.

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• 1. Updating products constantly
• Depending on the type of e-commerce products you
  sell, its important to keep on updating SKUs on
  a regular basis. This is because either product's
  pricing keeps on changing or there is a new
  addition in the store. This increases your
  workload because of product mismanagement. It is
  important to devote a sufficient amount of time
  to update your catalog so that users do not get
  bored by repetition.

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• 2. Selling across multiple channels
• Listing and selling your products on multiple
  channels can be an uphill task. Every channel has
  its own specific guidelines for selling products.
  You have to always list products in different
  ways on different channels. Following the same
  way of listing for every channel may not put your
  product in the right place and might result in a
  fall of customers faith and expectations. This
  will result in the shifting of your customers
  towards your competitor.

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• 3. Maintaining data quality
• While you are constantly updating your data and
  publishing this updated data on multiple
  channels, maintaining quality data might be a
  challenging task. There is a high risk of not
  focusing on content management, misspelled words,
  and irrelevant product descriptions which
  directly harms your business. It becomes
  overwhelming to establish and maintain high
  standard data. Your customers always expect
  accurate data and product descriptions matching
  to your products.

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• 4. Dealing with supplier data
• The data provided by suppliers are imprecise and
  incoherent for listing. Most of the important
  information and product attributes will be
  missing. This is because suppliers dont sell
  their product directly to their customers, they
  do it in their own way without proper formats.
  This makes the managing of Ecommerce product
  catalog problematic and it can take weeks for the
  company to categorize data properly.

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• 5. Expanding product catalog 
• Expanding your Product catalog can be a
  challenging task. It's difficult to add more SKUs
  when your product catalog is already messed. You
  have to clean up your SKUs or have to make sure
  that there is no longer any inconsistency in the
  product data quality. Such being the case, makes
  it difficult for the merchants to expand their
  product catalog and discourages them from growing
  their business.