Catalogs

Basware Catalogs – a service on the Open Network – provides buyers with access to accurate, relevant catalog content. It allows purchasing organizations to receive catalogs from any seller, anywhere in the world, massively extending the number of suppliers your business can trade with.

As part of the Basware Catalogs service, a team of dedicated Basware professionals will plan and execute a supplier activation program on your behalf. This allows procurement staff to maintain day-to-day operations without interruption while creating lasting value by focusing on building supplier relationships.

As a result, your purchasing organization will be ready to begin catalog-based purchasing as well as to start issuing electronic purchase orders and receive electronic invoices.

Key benefits of Catalog Management

• Promotes end-user adoption of e-procurement – it becomes quick and easy for staff to place requisitions within the corporate purchasing environment, channeling spend to preferred vendors and significantly increasing spend under management
• Improves contract compliance – you get the prices and discounts you negotiated and transactions are automatically monitored for contract compliance
• Enables purchasing from preferred suppliers – professionally executed supplier activation programs and the Open Network’s multiple supplier on-ramps ensure you will be able to start catalog purchasing from vendors who previously lacked the skill (or the will) to produce catalogs
• Allows purchasing staff to focus on catalog content – the Basware Catalogs service guarantees catalog delivery, validates catalogs and performs format conversion where necessary. This removes the need to deploy staff to chase missing catalogs and deal with technical problems
• Increases accuracy of spend analysis and financial reports – automatic account assignment and category code binding eliminates errors generated by manual coding when requisitions are created