The frame for this comparisonProduct data is a practice, not a project.
A feed platform decides how your catalog reaches each channel in the exact format that channel demands; this comparison is about where the values those channels filter on come from before the mapping runs, and who keeps supplying them next season when the assortment turns over and the rules stay the same.
01
Ground it
Mine every spec from every source.
Every value traced to a document you can open. The catalog is only as honest as what it was built from.
02
Align it
Aim the catalog at the buyer who actually buys.
Grounded data still loses if it answers questions nobody asked. Alignment is what turns specs into conversion.
03
Keep it alive
Product data is a practice, not a project.
Markets move, suppliers reissue, buyers change what they ask for. A catalog that is right in March is wrong by August unless something is watching.