Delivering rapid ROI with effective procurement e-catalog management

Buying can be a pleasure with consumer-like shopping and a sophisticated procurement process that makes it easy for employees to purchase from your preferred suppliers. With the SAP Ariba Catalog solution, you can provide employees with relevant and current procurement catalog content while you monitor content quality with at-a-glance dashboard reports.

• Cloud deployment
• Enterprise-grade procurement e-catalog management tools
• API to link procurement catalogs to live inventories and enterprise software
• Cross-catalog search functionality

Key benefits

Gain greater compliance and control

Make only approved suppliers searchable, prioritize preferred suppliers and products based on search criteria relevance, and apply contract pricing proactively.

Reduce costs

See available procurement catalog items in real time, collaborate on prices before ordering, and cleanse and enrich content to help keep it compliant and error-free.

Enable integration for lower risk

Integrate using APIs to help automate tasks, such as updating enterprise software systems so content stays current with real-time pricing and inventory details.

Key features

Faster and comprehensive procurement catalog enablement

• Take advantage of enablement support provided with your subscription
• Get help with comprehensive procurement catalog content collection, validation, enrichment, classification, and approval
• Employ automated verification functionality to speed updates, reduce workload, and improve accuracy

Improved experience for users

• Simplify and streamline purchasing processes with an intuitive user interface
• Make procurement catalog content management easier for buyers
• Enable uploading of master procurement catalog content by suppliers on SAP Business Network

Support for multiple procurement catalog types

• Load, manage, and access local catalogs or buy from remote, supplier-managed catalogs on third-party-provider platforms
• Use a variety of catalog formats, such as CIF, XLSX, cXML, BMEcat, and punch-out
• Conduct cross-catalog searches across buyer, supplier, punch-out, ERP inventory, and spot buy catalogs