Product Catalog Management

Best Practice Scenario: Product Catalog Management

The Product Catalog Management business scenario allows your company to use catalogs to centrally manage non-stock materials that are required for use such as office materials, engineering sample materials, computer systems, or machines. The scenario is not for products to be held on stock since they can be procured directly for an account assignment. A catalog can be managed by buyers, who create their own internal catalogs and access external catalogs provided by suppliers using the open catalog interface (OCI). It also allows your company to specify the default suppliers and product categories for the catalogs. Published catalogs can be used in other procurement scenarios.

Process Flow details

Roles involved to Product Catalog Management

• Strategic Buyer

Business Value of Product Catalog Management

The scenario of Product Catalog Management allows midsize companies to leverage standardized supplier data that can be used in product catalogs. It enables you to become more efficient by using products from authorized product catalogs.

SAP Business ByDesign helps you to efficiently manage your product catalog throughout the entire cycle - from setting up catalogs with your own or your supplier’s data, through to publishing them and using them in purchase orders, shopping carts, quotation requests, or goods and service receipts.

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Key Benefits of Product Catalog Management

• Provides faster access to product information and make a large number of products available to users;
• Supports self services and empowering employees to make smarter purchases;
• Increases automation in purchasing, including setting catalog defaults for frequently purchased items;
• Reduces workload for professional buyers, since employees can browse the catalogs themselves;
• Enables the professional buyers to define company-wide sources of supply and ensures that employees stick to the defined sources of supply;
• Helps to lower prices with a higher purchasing volume;
• Enhances catalog content with elements such as pictures and technical documents that  make it easy to quickly identify the right product.

Application

• SAP Business ByDesign

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