Product data enrichment for industrial and MRO distributors. Every SKU, every supplier, one standard.

MRO is the widest catalogue in distribution: fasteners next to bearings next to safety boots next to pumps, from hundreds of suppliers, none of whom describe a product the same way. SKULaunch takes the ETIM feed, the supplier PDF, the price list and the website, and turns them into complete, structured records your customers can search, filter and buy from. In days, not months.

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SKULaunch distributor supplier queue
100,000+
SKUs at APS Industrial, from ETIM files to ecommerce-ready records
4 weeks
from kick-off to live for APS Industrial

Built for the people running industrial product data

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Catalogue Manager

Owns 100,000 SKUs across forty product groups and 300 suppliers. Every new range is a spreadsheet with different columns.

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Ecommerce Manager

Running a trade site where search returns the wrong bearing because the dimensions were never structured, and the filters cover a third of the range.

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Procurement or Punchout Lead

Asked for UNSPSC codes, ETIM classes and full spec on every line by customers running their own procurement systems.

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Managing Director

Watching accounts drift to the distributor whose site answers the spec question at midnight.

The Problem

The range is too wide for one team to describe, and too technical for a generic tool.

An industrial catalogue is not one product data problem, it is forty. Bearings need dimensions and load ratings. Fasteners need thread, pitch, grade and finish. PPE needs standards and sizes. Pumps need flow, head and materials. Each product group has its own attributes, its own units and its own suppliers, and the team that has to describe all of it is the same size it was when the catalogue was half as big.

In our experience the industrial catalogue with the most suppliers is also the one with the least consistent data, because each supplier's format was accepted rather than mapped. That is the fix: one schema per product group, every supplier mapped to it.

The customer side moved first. Maintenance engineers and buyers search by part number, cross-reference and specification, filter by the attributes that matter to their kit, and order. Procurement systems pull your catalogue by punchout and expect a UNSPSC code and a complete spec on every line. Where the data is missing, the line does not get bought.

Standards help and do not finish the job. ETIM covers the electrical and technical part of the range, UNSPSC classifies for procurement, GS1 identifies. None of them writes a description, matches an image, links a spare or carries a supplier's non-standard attribute. Mapping from each standard to your schema is still work, and the suppliers who send nothing structured are still the majority.

For the full picture of what fixing this involves, from supplier intake to enrichment and publishing, see our guide to product data management for distributors.

3 sources

reconciled per product at APS Industrial, automatically: ETIM, supplier feed and web

Minutes

to produce a publish-ready record at APS Industrial, down from hours by hand

4 levels

in the UNSPSC hierarchy, segment to commodity, and only the last one is specific enough to sell from
the problems industrial distributors bring to us

Four industrial product data problems. One platform.

Most distributors arrive with one of these. The other three show up within a month.

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WHERE MOST DISTRIBUTORS START

Supplier onboarding that scales past 300 suppliers without 300 formats

Every supplier gets one portal link, pre-filled by AI from their own site and documents. They confirm rather than type. Your team receives structured data in your schema, whatever the supplier sent.

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SKULaunch supplier onboarding live view
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ENRICHMENT AT SCALE

100,000 SKUs enriched by product group, not by hand

SKULaunch enriches each product group against its own attribute schema, from the supplier's documents and web pages. Descriptions for the trade, images matched, spares and accessories linked. Reviewed by exception.

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SKULaunch enrichment run across 50,427 products — 48,204 enriched automatically, 2,043 flagged for review, completeness improved from 52% to 93%
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FILTERABLE CATALOGUES

Search and filters that find the right bearing, fastener or valve

Dimensions, ratings, grades, materials and standards structured on every SKU in consistent units, so search matches and filters never grey out.

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SKULaunch filter coverage after enrichment — voltage 98% complete, motor type 95%, chuck size 91%, IP rating 78%, vs 27% average before SKULaunch
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TIME TO LIVE

New supplier ranges live in days, with UNSPSC and ETIM on every line

From a supplier's launch pack to complete, classified, live listings while competitors are still opening the spreadsheet.

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SKULaunch onboarding timeline — supplier invite sent day 0, AI pre-fill applied day 0, supplier confirms day 1 to 2, vs old process waiting for spreadsheet day 7 to 21
WHAT CHANGES

What changes when your industrial product data works

WITHOUT SKULAUNCH
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300 suppliers, 300 formats. A team retypes, cleans and reclassifies every one. The backlog grows faster than the team.
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Forty product groups share one generic attribute set. The bearing and the boot have the same six fields.
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Search returns the wrong part. Filters cover a third of the range. Engineers ring the branch or go elsewhere.
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Punchout customers ask for UNSPSC and full spec. Someone fills it in by hand, line by line, deal by deal.
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New ranges take weeks to list. The distributor who listed first already has the orders.
WITH SKULAUNCH
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One portal link per supplier. AI pre-fills from their documents and site. Structured data lands in your schema.
One schema per product group, built in minutes, ETIM-aligned where ETIM applies. The bearing gets bearing attributes.
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Search and filters work across the range, because every SKU carries the right attributes in the right units.
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UNSPSC, ETIM and GS1 identifiers carried on every record and exported in any customer format.
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New ranges live in days. Completeness scored by supplier and product group, so you know where to look next.
The platform behind this

Built for industrial catalogue breadth

Every capability designed for a catalogue with forty product groups, hundreds of suppliers and a customer base that buys by specification.

SOURCE ONBOARDING

Supplier Portal

One link per supplier. AI pre-fills. Supplier confirms. Validated data in days.

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SOURCE ONBOARDING

Standards and Data Feeds

ETIM, BMEcat, UNSPSC and GS1, mapped to your schema and carried on every export.

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ENRICHMENT AND CONTENT

Enrichment Studio

Every product group enriched against its own schema. Confidence-scored. Reviewed by exception.

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DATA STRUCTURE

Mapping and Normalisation

Hundreds of supplier formats, units and value lists normalised to one schema without writing cleaning rules.

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DATA STRUCTURE

Schema and Attributes

An attribute schema per product group in minutes, from bearings to PPE, extended as the range grows.

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DATA STRUCTURE

Product Data Quality

Completeness by supplier, by product group, by attribute. Real-time, so the next enrichment run targets the gap.

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For industrial and MRO distributors

See your widest product group and your messiest supplier handled in one run

Book 30 minutes. Bring the product group you dread and the supplier whose spreadsheet nobody wants to open. We'll show both landing structured, enriched and ready to list.

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