Get new products live faster
Let new assortments follow the same controlled route from source to channel.
Assortment Scaling
More products live, less hassle.
As your assortment grows, getting new products live quickly becomes harder. More supplier data, exceptions and manual work make the product data flow increasingly complex. We bring that flow under control before your PIM, so you can publish faster to your webshop, ERP, checkout and marketplaces without the workload growing just as fast.
These organisations scale their assortment with ConnectingTheDots
More products, less hassle
What do you achieve with scalable assortment management?
Let every channel work from the same data
Manage product information from one current, validated source.
Grow without increasing manual work
Reuse existing rules, mappings and workflows as assortments and channels expand.
Sound familiar?
Assortment growth slows down publication.
Getting new products live takes more and more time due to manual work, checks and handovers. As a result, the operational load grows faster than your assortment.
New assortments take too long
Supplier data doesn't automatically fit categories, attributes and channel requirements. So the manual work keeps growing.
Every channel wants something different
Webshop, marketplaces and other channels set their own requirements. Without a fixed flow, you adjust product data again and again.
Problems surface too late
Missing fields and incorrect values often only become visible just before publication.
Growth means more repetitive work
New products, suppliers and channels bring the same checks and corrections every time. Without reusable rules, the work scales with them.
How we approach it
Built to handle growth without added complexity.
Bring new products into your structure straight away
Bring data from different sources into one structure first, so your assortment doesn't need to be reorganised with every expansion.
- Process sources centrally
- Translate categories and attributes
- Validate before processing
Manage once, use everywhere
Define data models, completeness and channel requirements centrally and apply them automatically to new products.
- Fixed data models
- Completeness per channel
- Manage rules centrally
Get new assortments live faster
Turn product introduction into a repeatable process that keeps working as assortments, suppliers and channels grow.
- Reuse workflows
- Apply channel rules
- Automate publication
How organisations scale their product data flow.
From assortment and brands to sales channels: everything flows from one controlled base.
Managing 2.5M+ SKUs and multiple brands from one scalable product data flow.
- 2.5M+ SKUs
- Multiple brands and channels
Keeping a wide, ever-changing assortment manageable while products and collections constantly change.
- Wide, changing assortment
- Scalable product content
Organising a wide assortment centrally and making product information scalable across the entire retail network.
- Many points of sale
- One central product base
Organising product management centrally with short lead times for garden and growing products, towards growers and retailers.
- One central product base
- Shorter lead times
Processing growing supplier data streams centrally and delivering consistent catalogues to all customers.
- Hundreds of suppliers
- One central catalogue
Technical architecture
How your assortment grows without the process growing with it.
01 · Ingest
Process more sources without more manual work
Bring files, feeds and APIs from suppliers together into one standardised data flow.
Technical
- Excel & CSV
- XML & API
- Incremental updates
AI bonus
- Automatically recognises structures and variations in source formats.
02 · Structure
Bring new assortments into your structure straight away
Automatically translate new products, categories and variants into one central product structure.
Technical
- Field mapping
- Category mapping
- Variant mapping
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- Suggests field, category and variant matches.
03 · Complete
Automatically complete product data at scale
Apply completeness rules to new products without checking everything by hand.
Technical
- Completeness rules
- Required fields
- Media checks
AI bonus
- Flags missing attributes and content.
04 · Validate
Check only what needs attention
Automate quality checks and route exceptions for targeted review.
Technical
- Quality checks
- Exception handling
- Change detection
AI bonus
- Prioritises deviations that need human review.
05 · Adapt
Expand into more markets
Apply language, content and local rules without building a separate flow for every market.
Technical
- Translations
- Local rules
- Content variants
AI bonus
- Speeds up translation, rewriting and localisation.
06 · Publish
Add channels without starting over
Publish from the same product base to webshop, marketplace, POS and other destinations.
Technical
- Webshop
- Marketplace
- POS & feeds
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- Checks completeness against channel-specific requirements.
07 · Monitor
Stay in control as volume grows
Track quality, exceptions and bottlenecks as your assortment, supplier base and channels grow.
Technical
- Status feedback
- Quality reports
- Workflow queues
AI bonus
- Recognises patterns in recurring errors and exceptions.
08 · Let’s talk
Where does scalability start in your product data flow?
We look at where your assortment, supplier base and channels can grow without manual work and complexity increasing at the same pace.
- 30 minutes, straight to the point
- No standard demo
- Focused on your situation
Ready to scale your assortment faster?
See where product launches are slowing down and which steps you can standardise, automate and reuse.
- Analysis of your current assortment flow
- Insight into bottlenecks and repeat work
- Concrete opportunities to go live faster
Frequently asked questions.
Can't find your question? Get in touch
By setting up product data, validations, mappings and publication rules as reusable flows. New products, brands and suppliers can then follow the same fixed route without operational work growing just as fast. In a demo we show you what such a flow looks like.
A PIM manages product information. ConnectingTheDots also sets up the data flow around it: from supplier data and mapping to validation, enrichment and publication to different channels. To find out what that means for your situation, you can get in touch.
By setting checks, completeness rules and channel requirements in advance. New products then don't need to go through the same manual steps every time before they can be published. In a demo you'll see how this process is set up.
Yes. Webshops, marketplaces, store systems, apps and other channels can be fed from the same controlled product base, with their own rules per channel where needed. We're happy to show this in a demo.
Yes. You can start with one assortment, supplier, brand or channel and then reuse the mappings, rules and workflows you've set up as you expand further. For a phased approach, you can get in touch.