The Catalog

PIM Consulting

Clarity for complex product data.

We help mid-market manufacturers and distributors centralise, clean, and connect their product catalogues — so they publish faster across every channel.

Services

Three ways we work.

01

Advise & implement

The right PIM, built for your catalogue.

We assess your product complexity, data flows, and channel landscape, then select and implement the PIM platform that fits — not the most expensive one, not our preferred vendor. Akeneo, Contentserv, Plytix, or custom. We own the go-live.

Deliverables

  • Tool selection and business case
  • Data model and taxonomy design
  • Configuration, customisation, and go-live
  • Team training and handover
02

Cleanse & catalog

Raw data in. Clean catalogue out.

ERP exports, supplier spreadsheets, legacy Access databases — we have seen it all. We normalise, deduplicate, enrich, and structure your product data so it meets the quality bar your channels, your customers, and your operations require.

Deliverables

  • Data audit and completeness report
  • Attribute mapping and normalisation
  • Hierarchy and classification rebuild
  • Bulk import validation and QA
03

Integrate & connect

One source. Every channel.

A PIM only realises its value when it talks to the rest of your stack. We connect your PIM to ERP, ecommerce platforms, marketplaces, and print channels — through APIs, middleware, or bespoke connectors — so data flows in one direction: outward.

Deliverables

  • ERP and MDM integration
  • Ecommerce and marketplace syndication
  • Middleware configuration (Alumio, Make, custom)
  • Monitoring and error alerting setup
Who we help

You may recognise these symptoms.

We work with mid-market manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers — companies with 500–10,000 SKUs and a growing gap between the quality of their product data and the demands of their channels.

You sell through multiple channels

Ecommerce, distributors, marketplaces, print catalogue — and every channel has its own data format. A PIM is the single source your team stops copying and pasting from.

Your catalogue is large and complex

Thousands of SKUs, hundreds of attributes per product, multiple variants. The complexity outgrew spreadsheets two years ago, and the team knows it.

Product data is scattered across systems

ERP holds one version, the ecommerce team maintains their own, and marketing works from a shared drive. Nobody is sure which is correct.

Time to market is too slow

New products take weeks to publish because data preparation is manual. By the time it is live, a competitor's catalogue is already indexed.

Approach

How we work.

01

Specialist depth.

We only do PIM. That means we have seen the edge cases, the vendor limitations, and the integration failure modes that a generalist consultant discovers on your project. You pay for expertise, not a learning curve.

02

Fixed-fee engagements.

Every project is scoped and priced before we start. No time-and-materials overruns, no surprise invoices. If the scope changes, we talk about it openly before the budget does.

03

Honest recommendations.

We recommend the platform that fits your situation, not the one with the best referral margin. If your problem does not require a dedicated PIM, we will tell you. That trust is worth more to us than a single project.

Contact

Ready to bring clarity to your product data?

Tell us about your catalogue — the size, the current stack, and the pain. We will come back with a clear point of view on whether and how we can help, at no cost.

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