Process: Catalog management - Supplier
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Objective
Create, load, and manage the set of products available in a marketplace.
Description
Businesses need to manage a catalog over its life cycle and consider the
following elements:
- Catalog load
- Load the product information, either manually or using automation, into the
catalog based on the defined marketplace taxonomy. When loading catalog data
manually, the format of the supplier catalog data is CSV.
- Merchandising
- Add merchandising constructs such as associations, kits and sales catalogs,
to promote the sale of products to the customer.
- Catalog maintenance
- Product management will continue to evolve the catalog. New products are
introduced, old, obsolete products are discontinued, product information is
often revised, and costs may change frequently. Catalog maintenance may involve
the first three steps as product additions and deletions may cause the catalog
to be redesigned and loaded again.
- Catalog syndication
- Businesses may publish the catalog or a subset of the catalog externally to
third parties or onto other media.
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Professional, Business Edition
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