Drive adoption and a fast ROI with a simple shopping experience
SAP Ariba Catalog – a procurement catalogs solution – combines consumer-like shopping with a sophisticated procurement process. With innovations in guided buying and semantic search, it displays relevant and current content to make it easy for employees to purchase from your preferred suppliers. Meanwhile, you can monitor content quality with new dashboard reports.
Simplifying the most complex catalog management processes, SAP Ariba Catalog provides:
- User-friendly catalog and shopping-cart functionality so employees can quickly buy what they need to do their jobs
- Cross-catalog search functionality among local catalogs, inventoried items, a spot buy marketplace, and punchout catalogs
- Advanced content management tools to help purchasing agents efficiently validate and sort the best of what your suppliers have to offer
- A streamlined content and catalog creation process with an enhanced, simple user interface to facilitate the uploading of catalog content by suppliers
- Enterprise-grade content management tools to help suppliers define, validate, and enrich catalog content
Procurement Catalog Features
A culture of compliance
With this user-friendly system that speeds adoption, only approved suppliers are searchable. Preferred suppliers and products are prioritized based on relevance to search criteria – and contract pricing is applied proactively.
Fast and full enablement
From the simple to the complex, catalog enablement is fast. And full catalog enablement is provided with your subscription, including content collection, validation, enrichment, classification, and approval.
Easy maintenance
With our procurement catalogs solution, your content can now be updated in minutes. And automated verification capability speeds updates, reduces workload, and improves accuracy.
Rich content
SAP Ariba Catalog now features content normalization. By increasing the number and quality of filters users can apply to their searches, the accuracy and relevance of search results is improved, providing users with rich content.
APIs and integration
This procurement catalogs solution can be integrated with other SAP Ariba solutions, enterprise software, and other procurement tools. It offers open API integration and catalog APIs to help automate tasks such as uploading lookup data and updating enterprise software systems.
