Invoicing and Fulfillment Strategies
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- select a default invoicing stategy There are three available: regular invoicing to customer, comission invoicing to customer, commission invoicing to article source
- select a default fulfillment strategy. There are two available: self fulfillment, article source fulfills.
- For each of the product sources you may specify an override invoicing and fulfillment strategy. (ofc not for the exlusions)
- definition of contained categories (classication structures) - these categories are packed into the catalog file and transmitted to the customer, which can decide which ones are to be used
- definition of contained category mappings (only these ones where both categories are included are available) - this helps the customer to map to his local structures.
See this article for more information on invoicing and fulfillment strategies.
Sales settings
- publishing price list and currency.
- catalogs available to 3rd parties
- definition of target audience - for which business participants will this catalog be available?
- public, specific partners
- define order routing - for each of the defined products you may define where the catalog customer digital shall place the orders. There are various business cases, which are supported by routing
- trade business - in this case the catalog does not contain the supply-chain of this product. The customer digital is ordering with the publisher of the catalog, which procures or produces the products himself. Once they are there, they are shipped.
- Three digital business cases (catalog customer, catalog publisher, final supplier)
- point-to-point business - in this case the catalog contains the supply-chain of this product. The customer digital orders directly with the last known upstream supply chain digital. The money and fulfillment directly happen between the final supplier and the catalog customer.
- brokerage business - in this case the catalog does not contain the supply-chain of this product. The customer digital is ordering with the publisher of the catalog. The publisher does not do a make or buy decision, but just forwards the order to partner of which he has received the product and passes the order on. The final supplier does the fulfillment. The broker keeps the delta of the procurement price and the price published to the customer.
- commission business - in this case the catalog does not contain the supply-chain of this product. The customer digital is ordering with the publisher of the catalog. The publisher does not do a make or buy decision, but just forwards the order to partner of which he has received the product and passes the order on and notifies the customer, so they can do the business directly. The final supplier does the fulfillment and takes care of the payment directly. The catalog publisher receives a comission of the final supplier.