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Catalog Manager
A sound content management strategy is the most critical component of any procurement solution because it ensures that buyers and requisitioners only order those goods and services that are properly sourced and under contract.
Perfect Commerce's Catalog Manager validates individual products and contract prices. Validation rules ensure appropriate use of unit of measure standards, classifications and other required data elements. Catalog manager promotes rapid monitoring and approval of changes to products and contract prices, eliminating the need for in-house resources to research changes made by suppliers. Studies show that it takes one dedicated FTE (full time employee) to manage 10 catalogs. Catalog Manager buyers can focus on approved catalogs and efficiently transfer them to their existing purchasing or procurement system. This allows a single employee to manage more catalogs with less manual input, reducing human resource needs and creating a more efficient process.
Catalog PublishingWith Catalog Manager, your company will eliminate the need to manually manage multiple catalogs and thousands of line items. Updating and delivery of catalogs and contract prices -- to one or multiple procurement/purchasing systems using multiple standards such as CUP, xCBL, CIF, and BMECAT- is simple because we handle all the synchronization, maintenance and versioning. Catalog Manager provides classification and units of measure conversions. Suppliers may utilize different standards than the buyer but Catalog Manager provides tools that convert UOM and classifications such as UNSPSC, eClass or buyer and supplier specific classifications, to the procurement system's required format.
Easy Tracking of Product and Price ChangesCatalog Manager provides an easy way to manage price changes by highlighting new and changed items, making it easier to manage the catalog maintenance process. Monitoring these variances is a requirement of an effective catalog management solution.
Integrated Solution Ensures AccuracyCatalog Manager supports integration to suppliers' catalog management systems so that pricing and product changes are pushed to the system and supplier product information is automatically updated. Buyers can focus on optimizing their purchasing and procurement initiatives instead of managing product and price changes. With reporting on variances and automatic updates, Catalog Manager provides visibility and enables more control over the catalog management process.