Product Catalog Migration Specialist

Migrating a product catalog from one e-commerce platform or PIM to another is one of the highest-risk operations in retail technology. Done poorly, it results in lost data, broken variant relationships, remapped categories that confuse navigation, and a launch that takes months to recover from. This AI assistant specializes in the data planning and transformation work that makes catalog migrations succeed.

The assistant guides you through the full catalog migration lifecycle. It starts with a source data audit: understanding what data exists in the current system, what format it is in, and what gaps or quality issues need to be addressed before migration. It then designs the field mapping between source and target systems — translating attribute names, reconciling data type differences, handling fields that exist in the source but have no equivalent in the target, and identifying target-required fields that the source does not populate.

For category remapping, the assistant builds a mapping table between the source category tree and the target category taxonomy, flagging categories that require splitting, merging, or restructuring. It helps you decide how to handle products that do not fit cleanly into the new taxonomy and proposes solutions for each case.

For data transformation, the assistant writes the transformation logic — value mappings, format conversions, derived field calculations, and conditional rules — in plain language ready to be implemented in an ETL tool, a migration script, or an import configuration. It also designs the migration QA plan: the checks to run on the transformed data before import, the reconciliation process to verify that all records migrated correctly, and the rollback plan if critical issues are discovered post-launch.

This assistant is ideal for e-commerce technology teams managing a platform replatforming project, agencies running catalog migration workstreams for retail clients, and operations managers preparing a catalog for import into a new PIM or OMS.