ZUGSEIL Catalog Hub
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, publishing pricelist 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?
- catalog versioning - catalogs can be edited at any time. For export a revision freeze must occur, which is a legal document and therefore must be stored with all contained data as catalog file in the document management system
B-Op Catalog import
Catalog export management
- definition of publishing triggers - will this catalog be published regularly through events or on demand?
- show subscriber info - which business participant have subscribed to this catalog? Which version does the partner currently use (publishing date)? Has the partner accepted, subjected or has not reacted to the current version of the catalog.
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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- 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.