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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.

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