Spreadsheets are often the most practical place to start managing product data. Excel and Google Sheets are familiar, flexible and quick to set up. For a small catalog, one file may be enough to manage titles, descriptions, prices, images and attributes. The problems begin as more products, suppliers, sales channels, languages and team members are added. The real threshold is rarely a fixed number of products. It is the complexity around them. Here are seven signs that your product catalog may have outgrown spreadsheets. 1. Multiple versions of the same product data Marketing edits one copy, purchasing maintains another, and…
The European Union has reached an important milestone in its product transparency agenda. The Digital Product Passport (DPP) Registry is live, marking the beginning of the infrastructure that will support one of the EU's most significant digital product initiatives under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). While businesses are not yet required to register every product, the launch of the registry moves the Digital Product Passport from a future concept to an operational system. The registry provides the framework for registering Digital Product Passports and verifying product identifiers as product-specific requirements are introduced over the coming years. It is…
