Catalog Management Workbench

Catalog Management uses the Catalog Management Workbench component (EOCM_CATWRKBCH_CMP) to execute the Quick Item Load process. Users can select a source file and click the Load Items button to initiate either a Full or an Incremental Load to move items into production and Purchasing. This process supports loading of a single partner’s source file at a time.

All rows in the item file can be processed through production only if there are no validation errors in any row, or all errors encountered have been corrected or removed.

A partner can initiate the Quick Load process to run the following consolidated processes: Upload/Import, Load Map, and Categorization; the partner also has the option to review the data loaded before approval processing can start.

For a catalog administrator, approval option can be setup to control whether or not the administrator can process the item file using the Quick Load process all the way into Purchasing.

• If approval is required, clicking the Load Items button initiates the following consolidated processes: Upload/Import file, Load Map, and Categorization. The Pending Approval icon becomes active on the lifeline for the specific catalog on the workbench. An approver is required to review/approve the data loaded to initiate the remaining processes.

• If approval is not required, clicking the Load Items button initiates the following consolidated processes: Upload/Import file, Load Map, Categorization, Approval (auto approval), Staging, Move to Production, and ePro CUP process to load items into Purchasing.

If a catalog is setup as an Express Catalog, Quick Item Load process runs through production only and is not moved into Purchasing’s item tables. Users should run the Search Framework indexing of eProcurment to index these express catalog items into the Search Framework repository for item searching in eProcurement Requisition.