The same product under different codes
Two suppliers list one item with their own SKUs and descriptions, so it shows up twice, at two prices.
Reconcile supplier and product catalogs
Every supplier sends its catalog in its own format. Karg matches the same products across them, standardizes SKUs, units and prices, and hands back one catalog your inventory system can use.
Who it's for
- Purchasing and inventory managers
- Operations directors
- Distributors combining supplier price lists
What goes wrong
Units and prices with no agreed format
BX, box and 100ct can be the same pack. Prices arrive as 12.4, $12.40 and 12.40 USD.
One supplier, many spellings
Allied Supply, ALLIED SUPPLY CO and Allied Supply Co. are one vendor, but a report counts three.
Matching by hand every cycle
Each time a price list changes, someone lines the files up row by row before an order can go out.
See it on sample data
Watch Karg clean it, applying what it is sure of and holding the rest for a person, or step through it yourself and make the uncertain calls.
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How Karg handles it
Product matching
Specialized entity-resolution models find listings that are the same product across suppliers and propose each match with a confidence score. Matches you have not approved stay separate.
One format for SKUs, units and prices
Rules and models write every unit, price and code the same way, using the format your catalog already uses most.
Supplier names reconciled
Spelling variants of a supplier map to one name, so totals and reports count it once.
Exceptions you can see
Values Karg cannot resolve with confidence are listed for a person to decide instead of being guessed.
What you receive
- A standardized catalog in one layout
- Proposed product and supplier matches, with confidence scores
- A list of the exceptions Karg could not resolve
- A record of every change and why it was made
- A saved setup to reuse on the next round of price lists
Exactly what comes back depends on the data and on how you work with us. Every change is checked against a confidence threshold, and anything below it is decided by a person.
Go deeper
Entries from our field guide to messy data that cover these problems in detail.
- The same entity in two systemsOne person or organization exists in two systems under different identifiers, with nothing linking the records.
- Inconsistent category labelsA column meant to hold a few fixed values holds many spellings of them.
- Mixed unitsValues in one column are measured in different units, sometimes with the unit written in the cell and sometimes not.
- Mixed currenciesAmounts in one column are in different currencies, marked by a symbol, a code, or nothing at all.
- Identifiers that lost their leading zerosA code that starts with zero, such as a postal code or account number, was read as a number and the zeros were dropped.
Get it done your way
Let our team do the work, or run the platform yourself. Both use the same cleaning engine.
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Have Karg handle it
Send us your files and tell us what you need. Our team runs them through the same engine, checks the uncertain cases, and sends the data back clean.
- No new software to learn
- No data hire required
- Scoped and priced per project
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Use Karg yourself
Upload or connect your data, answer a few questions, and review what Karg is unsure of. Your team stays in control of every change.
- Self-serve cleaning for your own team
- Confidence-scored fixes and a review queue
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