Catalog service assures up-to-date content and boosts contract compliance
Basware Catalogs, a service on the Basware Open Network, combines supplier enablement services with cutting-edge software tools that both buyers and suppliers can utilize for the construction and management of product catalogues.
Basware Catalogs provides buyers with access to accurate, relevant catalogue content. As it is a service delivered via Basware’s Open Network, purchasing organizations are able to receive catalogues from any seller, anywhere in the world, massively extending the number of suppliers a business can trade with.
As part of the Basware Catalogs service, a team of dedicated Basware professionals plan and execute a Supplier Activation program on your behalf. This allows procurement staff to maintain day-to-day operations without interruption and create lasting value by focusing on building supplier relationships - instead of resolving issues in catalogue technology and chasing suppliers for catalogue updates.
As a result of supplier enablement programs, your purchasing organization will be ready to begin catalogue-based purchasing as well as to start issuing electronic purchase orders and receive electronic invoices.
Key benefits
- Fosters end-user adoption of e-procurement – Availability of catalogued content invites staff to place requisitions within the corporate purchasing environment, helping to channel spend to preferred vendors and significantly increasing spend under management
- Improves contract compliance – Catalogue-based purchases occur at the prices and with the discounts purchasing has negotiated; transactions are automatically monitored for contract compliance
- Enables purchasing from preferred suppliers – Professionally executed Supplier Activation programs and Basware Open Network ‘s multiple supplier on-ramps ensure you will be able to start catalogue purchasing also from vendors who previously lacked the skill or the will to produce catalogues
- Allows purchasing staff focus on catalogue content – The Basware Catalogs service guarantees catalog delivery, validates catalogues and performs format conversion where necessary, removing the need to deploy staff to chase missing catalogues and deal with technical problems
- Increases accuracy of spend analysis and financial reports – Automatic account assignment and binding of category codes eliminates errors previously generated by manual entering of coding at requisition creation