How much SKU – why it is important

WebbyLab has many years of experience in developing and launching various E-commerce platforms: from a few hundred products to half a million products. Typically, most ready-made E-commerce solutions are designed to work well with tens of thousands of SKUs, but if a company has hundreds of thousands of SKUs, it means that maximum customization will be required in the process of developing and implementing such an Internet resource. And it’s not even about the performance of a solution like that, more modern “boxed” solutions, such as Magento or Hybris, in theory, can work with a significant number of products. However, the complexity of working in the ecosystem (https://webbylab.com/blog/what-is-an-e-commerce-ecosystem-everything-you-need-to-know/) of such a store increases significantly. You will need to take into account the business processes: Content department, Marketing department, Logistics department, Support department, Commercial department, etc.

Your solution should be as flexible and adaptive as possible, you should quickly respond to changes that are set by various company structures. So, the number of SKUs is, primarily, about the complexity of the company structure itself and the need to take into account many additional factors that you would ignore when running a small online store.