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== Core functionality == | == Core functionality == | ||
===== Catalog definition ===== | |||
Before a catalog can be exported, it must be defined. Catalog definition spans a wide variety of information | |||
* '''definition of base data''' - catalog name, validity period and currency | |||
* '''definition of target audience''' - for which business participants will this catalog be available? | |||
* '''definition of contained products''' | |||
** '''individual products''' - define design products or products and variants and customizations published with this catalog | |||
** '''sub-catalogs''' - name catalogs recursively, of which all products will be incorporate into this catalog | |||
* '''definition of contained categories''' - which categories are distributed with this catalog and which category maps? | |||
===== B-Op Catalog import ===== | ===== B-Op Catalog import ===== | ||
===== Catalog export ===== | ===== Catalog export management ===== | ||
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* '''definition of publishing triggers''' - will this catalog be published regularly through events or on demand? | |||
== B-Op Catalog integration with legacy P2P software == | == B-Op Catalog integration with legacy P2P software == | ||
Revision as of 17:20, 1 February 2024
Catalogs have been the main tool for sharing knowledge on products between business partners for centuries. b-op also continues this tradition and uses digital catalogs as well. The b-op trade sphere offers powerful functionality of creation, maintenance and sharing of catalogs. For partners, which have their b-op digital, catalogs can be published and used seamlessly.
ZUGSEIL has built a powerful UI to make our customer get the max from this core b-op tradesphere feature.
Core functionality
Catalog definition
Before a catalog can be exported, it must be defined. Catalog definition spans a wide variety of information
- definition of base data - catalog name, validity period and currency
- definition of target audience - for which business participants will this catalog be available?
- definition of contained products
- individual products - define design products or products and variants and customizations published with this catalog
- sub-catalogs - name catalogs recursively, of which all products will be incorporate into this catalog
- definition of contained categories - which categories are distributed with this catalog and which category maps?
B-Op Catalog import
Catalog export management
- definition of publishing triggers - will this catalog be published regularly through events or on demand?
B-Op Catalog integration with legacy P2P software
Since 2016 as b-op tradesphere was defined, all business participants can have their own b-op digital and are fully and digitally integrated at no cost.
But the Procure-To-Pay (P2P) process chain has been around way before 2016 and has been target for digitalization for long time. As a result of this legacy software exists for this process chain, each with a lot of customers which can not just switch to a b-op based system at once, but must ways to at least partially use the benefits instead before a migration project can start.
Related articles
- App:Catalog Import Manager (CIM) - The main tool to create and maintain catalogs.
- Customer Catalog Manager (CCM)- The main tool for creating, maintaining and publishing catalogs to customers
- B-Op Yellow-Pages - The main tool for connecting and automated digital connection in trade networks
- ZUGSEIL P2P Hub - offers automation tools for catalogs and other Procure-To-Pay (P2P) objects.