Integration with Item Content Providers

The proliferation of web-based catalogs has provided manufacturers with an easy and effective tool to locate items with the desired specifications at the lowest cost. The traditional catalog function now comes in a variety of forms to improve business to business communication between systems. Examples include component supplier management systems, market site aggregators, independent trading exchanges, and traditional catalog providers with new web interfaces. These systems benefit the design and purchasing of new products by accelerating item location, maximizing design reuse, and reducing acquisition costs.

The PeopleSoft Manufacturing system provides an EIP to these systems, which maximizes the ease of importing item data into the PeopleSoft database. Using PeopleSoft Application Messaging technology, you can keep item and supplier/item information synchronized within the PeopleSoft system. In particular, you can launch, search, and import supplier/item information from the item content provider into the PeopleSoft database.