How You Author Catalogs Collaboratively

Collaborative Catalog Authoring allows procurement agents to establish the terms, and suppliers or catalog administrators to provide the catalog content. This allows agents to transfer the catalog content management workload to the supplier, and refocus their efforts on more strategic tasks.

This figure shows the collaborative catalog authoring process.The agent can create the skeleton blanket purchase agreement and transfer the document either to the supplier or the catalog administrator to provide the catalog content.The supplier or catalog administrator can add content to the agreement either by uploading in XML, cXML, CIF, and tab delimited formats or by using online authoring and then transfer the document back to the agent after authoring is complete.The agent can then review the content added, make necessary changes, and submit the document for any required approval or supplier acceptance.