Your supplier
onboarding is broken.
You just can't see it yet.

68% of supplier spreadsheets come back incomplete. Most teams accept this as normal. It isn't — it's a structural failure that blocks every product downstream.

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This is a Problem for

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Head of eCommerce

Product pages stay empty while categories wait for supplier data that's 3 weeks late

📦
Product Data Manager

Manually chasing suppliers, cleaning spreadsheets, and re-importing for every new range

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Category Manager

Range launches delayed because product data wasn't ready on go-live day

⚙️
IT / Systems Lead

Maintaining a patchwork of spreadsheet templates, email chains, and manual imports

The Problem

The spreadsheet was never the right tool for this.

The process is always the same. You send a template. The supplier opens it, doesn't understand half the columns, guesses at the values, leaves the hard ones blank, and sends it back. Your team spends two days cleaning it. Half the fields still aren't right. You email the supplier again. The range launch slips two weeks.
Everyone accepts this as normal.

"We have 47 suppliers. Each one gets a slightly different version of the same spreadsheet. Each one sends it back differently. We have one person whose entire job is correcting supplier data."

Head of Product Data, UK electrical distributor

The hidden cost isn't the time your team spends cleaning data — it's the downstream effect. Products that can't go live because three required attributes are missing. Category launches delayed because one supplier hasn't finished their template.
Every day of delay is a day your competitor's product is live and yours isn't.

And the conventional fix — a vendor-facing portal — usually makes it worse. Suppliers need to create accounts, learn a new system, and still fill in the same fields your template asked for. Completion rates drop. You've added friction and solved nothing. The problem isn't the format. It's that the process puts the burden of data quality entirely on the people least equipped to deliver it.

68%

of supplier data submissions contain errors, gaps, or inconsistencies that require manual correction before they can be used

3 wks

Average time from supplier invite to usable, validated product data using a spreadsheet-based process

1FTE

Dedicated headcount the average mid-size distributor spends cleaning and chasing supplier data every year
How sku launch fixes it

Three things that break supplier onboarding. Fixed.

The problem isn't your suppliers. It's the process you're asking them to follow. We change the process.

01
supplier portal

Replace the spreadsheet with a portal suppliers actually complete

SKU Launch's supplier portal gives each supplier a single link — no account, no download. AI pre-fills everything it can from the supplier's own product URLs and PDFs. Suppliers review and confirm, not type from scratch. Completion rates go from ~40% to 80%+.

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02
Ai pre-fill & extraction

Stop making suppliers type what AI can already read

When a supplier submits a product URL or spec sheet PDF, AI extracts every attribute it can find and pre-fills the portal form automatically. The supplier's job becomes reviewing and confirming — not data entry. The difference in completion rate is immediate.

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03
validation & quality gates

Set your standards once. Enforce them automatically.

Define required fields, accepted values, and format rules. The portal enforces them before submission — suppliers can't send incomplete records. Your team never receives bad data. It doesn't reach your PIM, your team, or your product pages.

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The transformation

What changes when you fix supplier onboarding

Before sku launch
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Send a 200-column spreadsheet template. Wait 2 weeks. Get back something half-complete in a different column order.
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Chase suppliers by email. CC the account manager. Wait another week. Get partial updates that need manual merging.
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Assign a team member to clean incoming data — fixing typos, standardising units, filling gaps from the manufacturer's website.
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Range launch delayed by 3 weeks. Products missing from the site. Competitor's range is live. You're still waiting for one supplier.
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Repeat every time a new supplier comes on board or an existing one updates their range.
with sku launch
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Send a single link. Supplier opens a branded portal — no login, no download. AI pre-fills everything it can from their website.
Supplier reviews AI pre-filled fields, adds the ones that need their input, and submits. Average completion time: 20 minutes.
Validation rules enforce your data standard before submission. Your team never receives incomplete records.
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Data lands in SKU Launch, normalised and structured. Enriched automatically. Ready for PIM or channel within hours, not weeks.
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Supplier portal completion rate: 80%+. Team hours spent chasing: near zero. Supplier onboarding time: 3 days, not 3 weeks.
The platform Behind this

Which SKU Launch capabilities power this solution

Supplier onboarding touches three parts of the platform — all working together automatically.

Source Onboarding

Supplier Portal

Branded, guided portal with AI pre-fill. Suppliers complete it. You receive structured data.

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Enrichment & content

Product Data Extraction

AI reads supplier URLs and spec sheets — pre-filling attributes before the supplier sees the form.

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Data Structure

Mapping & Normalisation

Every supplier's field names and values normalised to your schema automatically.

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data structure

Product Data Quality

Completeness scoring and validation gates — incomplete records never leave the portal.

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You probably also have this problem

The problems that come next

Once supplier data is in, these are the challenges most teams hit next.

Data Enrichment

Your product titles contain 5 attributes each. None of them are filterable

The data exists. It's just locked in unstructured text. AI extracts it — from titles, descriptions, PDFs, and product URLs.

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taxonomy & structure

Nobody owns your taxonomy Everyone suffers.

Before you onboard suppliers, you need to know what to collect. AI Schema Builder builds your attribute schema in minutes, not months.

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Speed & scale

New products take 6 weeks to go live. They should take 2 days.

The bottleneck isn't your team or your PIM — it's every manual step between supplier data arriving and a publish-ready product record being created.

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Ready for fix it?

See supplier onboarding that actually works

Book a 30-minute demo. We'll show you the portal set up for your supplier base — and run a live AI extraction on one of your supplier's spec sheets.

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