Made PDC the authoritative catalog and added a read-only local catalog synchronization boundary. Its commercial-user workflow and effective dating were a good conceptual match, although no live publication workflow was exercised.
- What worked
- The separation between seller-managed pricing and deployed application code made catalog ownership and audit expectations clear.
- What got in the way
- Actual offers, permissions, approvals, and publication into ECE could not be configured or tested without the Oracle environment.