How Homewerks Got 51,000+ Product Files Organized by SKU, Ready for Its PIM
Homewerks is optimizing its existing PIM to improve data completeness, usability, and functionality. The product information it needed already existed. What was missing was a reliable link between each file and the product it described.
Atronous organized 51,463 files, about 535.5 GB, across 2,869 SKUs and 43 brands, with every file tied to its SKU. Homewerks estimates the same work would have taken one person seven to eight months by hand.
At a Glance
- Customer: Homewerks, a bath and kitchen products brand selling through major home improvement and mass retailers
- Goal: optimize its existing PIM to improve data completeness, usability, and functionality
- Scope: 43 brands, 2,869 SKUs, 51,463 files, about 535.5 GB
- Result: every file tied to its SKU and organized to the Homewerks product taxonomy
- Time saved: an estimated seven to eight months of manual work for one person (Homewerks estimate)
The Situation: The Data Existed, but Not by Product
Homewerks sells faucets, fixtures, and accessories through major home improvement and mass retailers. Each retailer expects complete, precise product data in its own format. For plumbing products, dimensions are not a nice-to-have. They decide whether a faucet fits the customer’s sink.
The information was there. It lived on a shared network drive, in folders that had grown over the years. File names were inconsistent, and many did not name a SKU at all. The full set averaged about 18 files per SKU, and the team was sorting them by hand, folder by folder.
The Impact: The PIM Work Was Held Back
A PIM can only use data it can attach to a product. Until every file belonged to a SKU, improving the PIM meant someone opening thousands of files to work out which product each one described. At this scale, that was months of work before any product data could improve.
The Resolution: Every File Tied to Its SKU
Atronous took on the whole drive at once and organized every file around the SKU, matched to Homewerks’ own product taxonomy. The work followed the way the Homewerks team already sorted files, and every batch was checked before it went back to Homewerks. The full set was complete by September 18, ahead of the September 30 deadline, followed by extra checks on edge cases.
The Results
- Brands covered: 43
- SKUs covered: 2,869
- Files organized: 51,463, roughly 18 per SKU
- Data volume: about 535.5 GB
- Completed: September 18, ahead of the September 30 deadline
- Time saved: an estimated seven to eight months of manual work for one person (Homewerks estimate)
What Comes Next
With every file tied to its SKU, Homewerks has a clean source for the next stage: complete, validated product data in its PIM. That work is under way, and the first product line has been delivered to Homewerks for review.
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