June 18, 2025

Speed up product onboarding

Speed up product onboarding

Eliminate delays, reduce manual work, and launch new products faster across every channel.

When your team spends hours chasing missing data, fixing spreadsheets, or waiting on approvals, every product launch becomes a bottleneck. A PIM solution (like KatanaPIM) helps you onboard new products faster, with clean data, automated workflows, and instant publishing to all your sales channels.

The problem: Disconnected data slows everything down

Online sellers often receive product data in inconsistent formats: missing fields, outdated specs, low-quality images. Teams waste hours fixing the basics before anything goes live. And when content is stored in spreadsheets, email threads, or outdated systems, collaboration becomes a blocker.

How a PIM helps

A Product Information Management (PIM) tool centralizes all product content in one place. Here’s how it speeds up your onboarding process:

  • Clean data from the start
    Validate and enrich product data before it enters your system — no more patching up bad inputs.
  • Automated workflows
    Assign tasks, trigger approvals, and streamline collaboration between teams (marketing, ecommerce, product) without bottlenecks.
  • Bulk edits and smart templates
    Update hundreds of SKUs at once, apply presets, and reuse structures to move faster with each new launch.
  • Instant multichannel publishing
    Push product content to your webshop, marketplaces, or partner feeds with just a few clicks.

Real results

Retailers using a PIM report up to:

  • Significant reduction in time-to-market
  • Fewer or none manual errors
  • Faster onboarding of SKUs in days, not weeks

Sources: G2 reviews of various PIM tools (2023–2025), user testimonials and third-party case studies on Capterra & TrustRadius

FAQs

Why is product onboarding so time-consuming without a PIM? Because teams are stuck cleaning data manually, working in silos, and updating each channel one-by-one. A PIM automates all of this and keeps data clean and consistent.

Can a PIM handle onboarding from multiple suppliers? Yes. A PIM validates and maps incoming supplier data, highlights what’s missing, and applies your internal structure — no matter the source.

Ready to move faster?

Speed is a competitive advantage. With a PIM, your product launches become predictable, repeatable, and scalable.

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About KatanaPIM

KatanaPIM is here to support your digital journey by keeping your product data always up-to-date—because we know that’s key to your success.

With KatanaPIM, you have complete control over managing and sharing your product information, with no limits holding you back. KatanaPIM is an easy to use Product Information Management (PIM) tool that serves as the single source of truth for all your product data. It allows you to collect information from different sources and centralize it in one place. From there, teams can collaborate to enrich, validate, and prepare the data for distribution across various channels.

KatanaPIM is easy to integrate, whether through an open API, prebuilt integrations, feeds, or our partner ecosystem. It seamlessly fits into your existing tech stack and supports a composable commerce strategy. KatanaPIM is easy to implement because it’s a ready-to-use SaaS solution, designed with simplicity in mind. Thanks to its intuitive setup, onboarding is smooth and quick, getting your team up and running within just a few months, fully prepared to manage and streamline their product data.

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Speed up product onboarding

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Get your product information together and scale your business

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Get your product information together and scale your business

Get KatanaPIM to manage and distribute your product data without the hassle.