CDPs, ESPs and the customer record nobody owns
A CDP does not fix your customer data. It gives the mess a new address, and charges you per profile for the privilege.
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A CDP does not fix your customer data. It gives the mess a new address, and charges you per profile for the privilege.
Your 3PL already runs a warehouse management system. Buying a second one rarely fixes the problem you have, which is almost always that nobody agreed who owns the stock number.
At this size the hard part is not the API. It is that you do not control the ERP, its release calendar, or the people who change it.
The connector is the easy part. What decides whether this works is which system owns each object, and what happens the week one of them is wrong.
Webhooks are how most Shopify integrations hear about orders. They are also delivered at least once, out of order, and sometimes not at all.
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