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SMSHRS
DE · Multi-brand retail · Germany

200,000+ SKUs online in 3 months — at under 5 hours of work a week.

How fast-growing team-sports company SMSHRS turned the data chaos from 14 brands into a clean, unified product standard — and got its entire range online in a single quarter, without a dedicated data team.

Sport & teamwear200,000+ SKUs · 14 brandsB2C & B2B shopsShopify · AI Autofill & Image Matching
15,000
SKUs created in a single day — peak value during onboarding
200k+
SKUs from 14 brands enriched, imaged & brought online in 3 months
<5 hrs
average effort per week — without a dedicated data team
The Starting Point

14 brands, 14 data qualities.

Each brand delivered product data in a different format and depth. Attributes were missing, descriptions were inconsistent and images sat loose — in all kinds of sizes and backgrounds, with no clean assignment. At over 200,000 SKUs, unifying this by hand would have been a project of many person-months — time SMSHRS didn't have and didn't want to tie up.

Before
Each of the 14 brands delivers data in its own format and quality — attributes and descriptions unified by hand.
Download images, sift through them and assign each of the 200,000+ items individually — the biggest hidden time sink.
Research product descriptions and missing fields by hand — brand by brand, item by item.
No continuous, scalable process — at 200,000+ SKUs the project would simply never have finished.
With Productbay
AI Autofill enriches attributes, descriptions and fields automatically in the unified standard — across all 14 brands.
AI Image Matching assigns images to the right items automatically — no manual assignment.
One unified product standard instead of 14 data silos — the basis to keep building cleanly on.
B2C and B2B shops served from one data source — no double maintenance. Peak: 15,000 SKUs in a single day.
The Solution

AI Autofill, image matching & Shopify integration.

The result comes from several building blocks working together — with automatic enrichment, AI image matching and Shopify delivery to two shops at the core.

01

AI Autofill

Attributes, descriptions and missing fields are filled automatically in the unified SMSHRS standard — instead of maintaining every field individually.

02

AI Image Matching

Images are assigned to the right items automatically — across the entire range of 200,000+ SKUs, with no manual assignment.

03

Shopify integration

The finished data is published directly via the native Shopify integration — split into B2C and B2B, without manual copying.

04

Bulk onboarding

Brand by brand is imported and enriched in bulk — up to 15,000 SKUs in a single day. That's how the entire range came together in three months.

The Integration

14 brands, Productbay and two Shopify shops — one data source.

The raw data from 14 brands flows into Productbay in mixed quality, is brought to a unified standard via AI Autofill and Image Matching, and pushed into both shops via the native Shopify connection — split into B2C and B2B, from a single maintained data source.

14 brands — raw data in mixed quality
Productbay — autofill · image matching · one standard
2 Shopify shops — B2C & B2B from one source

15,000 SKUs in a single day — that number showed us what's really possible with the right architecture. Today we maintain 14 brands from one data base, in a fraction of the time it used to take.

Pascal Schweizer · Managing Director, SMSHRS
The Result

200,000+ SKUs, one standard — and room to grow.

What would have been a project of many person-months at 200,000+ SKUs across 14 brands ran in three months — at under five hours a week and without a dedicated data team. AI Autofill for enrichment and AI Image Matching for image assignment, published via the native Shopify connection into B2C and B2B shops. 14 inconsistent sources become one clean standard that scales freely.

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