Ariba Catalog Solution – An Easy Way to Procure Products
B2B customers
use a procurement application to conduct business transactions with their
suppliers. As a B2B customer, if you are looking for an easy way to organize
and manage your procurement catalog, you need to use an Ariba catalog solution. It is a procurement catalog content management
tool that has the ability to define and manage product information efficiently.
Supports Cross-catalog Search
An Ariba
catalog solution comes with cross-catalog search functionality, meaning if you
are connected to multiple suppliers via procurement application, you don’t have
to search each and every supplier catalog to look for the desired product. This
search functionality allows you to retrieve product data from any catalog
without entering product information multiple times. In simple words,
cross-catalog search functionality allows you to search through multiple
catalogs at one time.
Supports PunchOut Catalog
The catalog
solution is designed to support PunchOut, a mechanism that allows procurement
users to directly access supplier’s contract catalog. It establishes a direct
connection between the external supplier catalog and the B2B customer’s
procurement application. With Ariba PunchOut,
once you log into your procurement system, you have to just click the PunchOut
link to enter the supplier’s site and reach the contract catalog. Also,
PunchOut functionality provides product information such as pricing and
availability status in real time. So as a user of Ariba catalog solution, you
always have access to current product data. So if the supplier updates the
catalog, you know the changes in real time.
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