Application of Knowledge - 4.7 Catalog Management

Question 1

High SKU catalogs

Answer 1

• High numbers of SKUs often affect the performance of managing product collections and their indexes.
• This would manifest itself
• in the admin panel while editing products
• in catalog searches
• in browsing through categories
• With a large number of SKUs, it becomes important to standardize SKU and product naming

Question 2

High volume sales

Answer 2

• A high sales volume can bring along performance challenges. This means that the entire site is under a (possibly heavy) load and the server / architecture / infrastructure might need to be reconsidered.
• At this point, major customizations and streamlining will need to be made to the fulfillment process.
• Depending on inventory management, most of the steps to process an order can be automated.
• Magento EE Database sharding can help reduce the database as a bottleneck.