The Product Association's associated Products and Catalog must exist on the production system before it can be synchronized.

For the Products, you must either:

• Add them to a separate change set and sync that change set first.
• Add them to the same change set as the Product Association and sync them all at the same time.

If the associated Catalog is a Virtual Catalog, you must either:

• Add it to a separate change set and sync that change set first.
• Add it to the same change set as the Product Association and sync them at the same time.

If the associated Catalog is a Master Catalog, you must either:

• Use the Import-Export Tool to export the Catalog from the staging system and import it into the production system.
• Use the Commerce Manager to manually create the Catalog on the production system.
• Use database tools to extract the Catalog data from the the staging database and insert into the production database. This should only be performed by a database administrator.