Increase Purchase Order Accuracy and Help your Customers Drive eProcurement Compliance
To encourage compliance with their eProcurement initiatives, your customers need fast, easy, and user-friendly access to your product and service catalogs. Ariba provides multiple ways for you to quickly and easily expose your catalog content to customers and support their efforts to consolidate spend.
When you publish catalog content directly to buyers' backend systems, you can potentially differentiate your business and grow wallet share. For example, you can deliver just the right kind of catalog access each Ariba customer needs to optimize their eProcurement initiatives, which can position you as a preferred supplier. And by exposing your catalog content to all buyers within your customers' sites and helping your customer eliminate maverick spend, you'll likely see more business funneled to you.
Once you successfully expose your catalog content to Ariba customers, you can leverage that content to take advantage of Ariba Express Content opportunities. In addition, after demonstrating competency in handling catalog-driven customer orders, you can leverage value-added services such as Ariba® ReadyTM PunchOut and Ariba Ready CIF catalog.
Highlighted Functionality
When you deploy Ariba's catalog management solutions, you gain innovative functionality such as:
- Easy management and maintenance: Our comprehensive catalog dashboard gives you just the right level of visibility and control you need to manage all customer catalog activity, including updates, maintenance, and testing - all in one, convenient location.
- Intuitive, one-step CIF catalog validation and publication: Automatic validation enables you to quickly and easily make your CIF catalog available to customers.
- Visibility into customer catalog update status: Now you can minimize order rejections caused by buyers using out-of-date catalog content. When you see that a customer hasn't activated new content, you can trigger the appropriate actions. This enables you to minimize order changes and rejections and ensure fast order fulfillment - keys to customer satisfaction.
- Support for greater order accuracy: Gain high-quality purchase orders that fully comply with the terms you've negotiated with your customers, including price, ship-to-address, part number, and other key parameters.
- Easy PunchOut testing and troubleshooting: Analyze the customer experience by entering and exiting your own PunchOut website. By trying out multiple purchasing scenarios as a customer, you can quickly troubleshoot problems and ensure that prices, images, promotional packages, and functionality work exactly as you wish. You also have the opportunity to try out personalization strategies and make changes to optimize your PunchOut website.
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