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December 16, 2025

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Incorrect Product Data Can Cost a Fortune - A Webinar about how a PIM systems protects your brand

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Faulty Product Data Can Cost You Millions — Ergonode Webinar On Demand
Webinar on demand · Ergonode

Faulty product data can cost you millions — here's how a PIM protects your business

One wrong parameter on a product card can trigger a seven-figure fine, a lawsuit, or a marketplace ban. Watch the recording to see exactly where these errors come from — and how companies are closing the gap with a proper PIM.

On demand · ~45 min · Recorded in Polish, English subtitles available on request

Details

Everything you need to know

No fixed date — this session is fully on demand. Register once and watch whenever it suits you.

Topic
Where product-data errors come from, what "harmless mistakes" actually trigger, and how a PIM system helps you regain control.
For whom
Ecommerce, marketing, product, and compliance teams responsible for product data.
Format
Webinar on demand — no live session, no fixed schedule.
Speakers
Kamil Niedziewicz (Ergonode) & Tomasz Grzemski (Macopedia)
Language
Polish — recording available with English subtitles on request
Availability
Instant access — watch immediately after registering, anytime
The problem

Mistakes get expensive fast when you scale without preparation

Incorrect product data is already costing companies dearly — in extreme cases, losses have reached 50 million PLN. Regulatory requirements around product data keep tightening, which squeezes businesses from both sides: the real risk of penalties for non-compliance and misleading customers on one hand, and the pressure to bring products to market quickly — because the competition never sleeps — on the other.

Real examples from the market

The price of chaos: legal risk

A few years ago, the Polish B2B market was shaken by the case of a well-known construction manufacturer who — due in part to incorrect product data — sold a product with the wrong parameters, effectively misleading customers. The result: a multimillion-złoty penalty from the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), plus serious reputational damage. We unpack this case, and others, in the recording.

Fine · UOKiK
50M PLN
Issued against a manufacturer for an incorrect thermal-insulation parameter on polystyrene foam — worse than what was declared.
Court ruling
II GSK 1884/23
"Human error and a bad spreadsheet" are not a valid excuse — Supreme Administrative Court ruling.
Liability · Art. 36b
100,000 PLN
Maximum penalty for incorrectly labeling a construction product under the Construction Products Act.

See exactly how UOKiK traced this back to a single spreadsheet field.

Chaos in practice

A conversation you've probably had

This is what "harmless" data chaos actually looks like inside a team — one spreadsheet, four job titles, and no single source of truth.

JK
Jolanta · Marketing & Ecommerce Manager
Hey, can someone help me with the fire-reaction class for a flooring SKU? My spreadsheet says A1-FL, but it's an alder-wood board — that can't be non-combustible, right? @Bartek — what do you have on your side?
BN
Bartek · Head of Sales
Hey, I always list it that way. Should be fine 😅
CW
Cezary · CEO
Wait, what?! Are you telling me our last office fit-out shipped 1,500 m² of flammable flooring? Who owns this data? @Tomek — check this in the warehouse. Now. ‼️
TG
Tomek · Logistics Director
You two in marketing and sales are all over the place… the packaging clearly says D-FL-S2 (flammable, moderate smoke) 😡

Recognize this thread? The recording shows how to stop it before it starts.

Mechanism

"Frozen cash" and time-to-market

Every day a product sits in an onboarding backlog is a day your trade credit clock keeps ticking.

Without a PIM

30–60 days

The time it typically takes to pay off trade credit — while unfinished, unstructured product data sits frozen in warehouses and spreadsheets, delaying launch.

With Ergonode PIM

1,000+ → 0

A real onboarding backlog reduced to zero, freeing the team to focus on content quality instead of chasing missing attributes.

"Our onboarding backlog dropped to almost zero. It became a nice problem to have — we didn't know what to do with the team anymore, because we could finally focus on improving content that had been poorly prepared in the first place."
Slide: Mechanizm Zamrożonej Gotówki i Time-to-Market — before/after Ergonode PIM

From the original webinar deck: the "Frozen Cash" mechanism, before and after Ergonode PIM.

Curious what that backlog would look like on your own catalog?

The price of chaos

Invisible to AI

Shoppers increasingly discover products through AI assistants before they ever reach a search engine. If your product data isn't structured for that, you're invisible where it counts.

Referring source Category Traffic share
chatgpt.com AI chatbots & tools 33.60%
pepper.pl Ecommerce & shopping 28.73%
gemini.google.com AI chatbots & tools 8.69%
google.pl Search engines 7.84%
volta.com.pl Construction & maintenance 5.58%
Illustrative referral-traffic data for a Polish home & construction retailer, Sept 2025.

Want your catalog to be readable by AI shopping assistants, not just search engines?

The upside

Safety and profit come from the same data

The same product record that keeps you out of legal trouble is what turns into revenue on your distributor's shelf.

Technical & legal data Protection from penalties and compliance risk
Rich content Video, 360° views, premium cards — generates profit through retail media
Ergonode PIM
Distributor
Distributor's takeaway

"[…] the data meets the standard. We're moving into an advertising model. From now on, we earn not just on margin — but on clicks."

Slide: Bezpieczeństwo i Zysk — Ergonode PIM feeding technical/legal data and rich content to a distributor

From the original webinar deck: how Ergonode PIM feeds both compliance and revenue.

See how the same clean data protects you and pays for itself.

What you'll learn

Beyond the horror stories

The most common product-data pitfalls — often more dangerous than the regulations themselves.

How to build product data that meets current requirements, including GPSR.

Which types of product data are mission-critical today — and why missing them kills sales faster than ever.

What "notebook syndrome" is, and how better data governance protects your business from chaos.

All of this is covered in the recording — start whenever you're ready.

Hosted by

Who's guiding the session

Kamil Niedziewicz

Kamil Niedziewicz

Partnerships Manager, Ergonode

Works with brands and agencies across Europe on structuring product data for scalable, compliant ecommerce growth.

Tomasz Grzemski

Tomasz Grzemski

CEO, Macopedia

Leads Macopedia's B2B ecommerce & PIM implementation practice, drawing on real client rollouts across regulated industries.

Event partner

Macopedia — Premium Ergonode Partner

MC

14+ years turning product-data chaos into scalable ecommerce

Macopedia is one of the leading B2B ecommerce & PIM implementation agencies in Poland. Together with Ergonode, they deliver projects that redefine how companies work with product information — and that practical, in-the-trenches perspective is exactly what this session shares.

Want a second opinion on your own product-data setup?

Ready to stop firefighting product data?

Watch the full recording on demand, or skip straight to seeing Ergonode PIM on your own catalog.

Next step

Start your journey with
Ergonode PIM

Get rid of the product data mess, once and for now!