Issues:
- Large number of products – nearly 50K
- More or less niche market, so not too many competitors to be monitored
- Products do have MPNs to be uniquely matched by. However, some part numbers appear to be too vague (example: 500) – meaning straightforward matching would lead to many mismatches
- Not too frequent price changes
Solution:
- Automated product matching (Automatch) used to setup the account given the huge number of products and not too many competitors. However, due to the low data quality for some of the SKUs, Automated product matching had to be performed not only by MPNs, but by linguistic proximity as well
- Price2Spy Basic account is needed, since new products are to be added via CSV import (after that Automatch kicks in)
- Price Matrix report (exported to Excel) used by the client to import the pricing data into their own system, where price adjustments get done
