Why to Use SAP PunchOut?


If your B2B customers are SAP procurement users and you want to stay relevant to your customers, it is time to implement PunchOut technology into your business organization. This technology is the key to prevent your customers from reaching out to your competitors. If you want to dominate markets and take your competitors out of the picture, you certainly cannot afford to ignore this technology. With PunchOut, you can provide the most effective and efficient service and moreover improve your market appeal.

SAP PunchOut functionality will allow your customers to connect their SAP procurement system with your website. This functionality establishes a direct connectivity between the SAP procurement and your website. As a result, your customer can access the pre-approved contract catalog from within his procurement application that too without the hassle of entering login credentials.

Also, your SAP procurement user doesn’t have to waste time by unnecessarily wading through non-contract products. Access to contract catalog also eliminates the need to manually calculate pricing that has been decided in the contract.

Also, since only contract catalog is accessible, there is no question of adding non-contract products into the purchase order. In simple words, you will never receive incorrect orders, thereby helping to save time and money. Also, customers will always have access to latest catalog information as PunchOut is designed to support real time price and availability.

A SAP catalog solution with PunchOut simplifies the buying process of your customers. This is because, the PunchOut protocol is equipped to handle electronic purchasing. As a supplier, you can accept electronic purchase orders sent by your customer. This in turn helps to speed up the purchasing process.

The Open catalog interface (OCI) format is commonly used to connect the supplier’s external PunchOut catalog with the customer’s SAP procurement system. The exchange of information between systems always takes place in OCI format.

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