53 / Field note
Supplier Data Is an API Even When It Arrives as Excel
Treat supplier spreadsheets as versioned external interfaces. Make schemas, provenance, missing values and identity rules explicit before importing rows.
Digital Systems & Commerce
Supplier Data
Writing about supplier data.
26 / Guide
CSV Is Not a Database, but Sometimes It Is the Interface You Get
Supplier files need an explicit boundary: preserve the input, detect its schema, normalize carefully and validate meaning before creating channel exports.
24 / Field note
The Hard Part of E-commerce Is Usually the Product Data
Supplier files become a systems problem when identifiers, variants, prices and stock disagree. A practical way to build a catalogue you can safely publish.