The frame for this comparisonProduct data is a practice, not a project.
Product data is a practice, not a project — and with a staffed offshore delivery model the work runs against a definition of what "done" means for each field, while the practice is everything that happens in the interval, when marketplaces, suppliers, and buyers quietly change the questions that definition was written to answer.
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.