How do you detect mixed product revisions in a supplier photo folder?

Find the revision evidence

Ask the product owner for the current SKU, packaging revision and relevant change record. Compare each photograph with those identifiers. File dates alone may reflect download or export time rather than when the product was manufactured. Use actual construction and approved records to establish the current version.

For an illustrative desk device, one image may show the old rear connector while another shows the new control layout. Both can look professionally shot, but they do not form a consistent source set.

Create a source reconciliation table

Record uncertainty instead of choosing whichever photograph best fits the desired scene. If the supplier cannot resolve a critical difference, obtain a new photograph of current stock.

Generate from the reconciled set

In the relevant CartVisual workbench, upload only the approved current references and describe the exact variant. Keep the held files out of the submitted set. A detailed requirement cannot reliably repair contradictory source evidence after the fact.

Inspect the candidate for hybrid construction, such as a new front with an obsolete rear port. This manual source decision must come from the product owner’s actual record; a generated candidate is not a revision-database check.

Preserve the source decision

Keep the reconciliation table with the generation record and final asset. When another team member asks why a high-quality image was excluded, the revision reason should be available. If a product update arrives later, repeat the comparison rather than appending new photographs to the old set.

Use replacement planning for already released assets and source tracing for the record. The output of this guide is a coherent source set, before any creative candidate exists.

Fictional SKU D keeps the same sale name through revisions R1 and R2. The product owner’s R2 record confirms a changed rear connector and unchanged front wordmark. Folder file F1 shows that front, R1-rear shows the old connector, and S1 hides the rear entirely. A later download date on R1-rear does not make it an R2 photograph.

Exclude held sources from the actual input set, not just from the written brief. If the current edition cannot be resolved, narrow the requested view or wait for evidence. After the product changes, the replacement-plan guide handles published placements; this intake step prevents a mixed source set before generation. No supplier folder or physical unit was tested here.