Supplier Onboarding

Easy Supplier Integration and Self-Service for Product Catalogs

Many suppliers and formats? — Our seamless supplier onboarding and intuitive catalog self-service significantly simplify integration and collaboration with suppliers. You benefit from quick integration, automated quality checks, and receive error-free, market-ready product catalogs for retail, distribution, purchasing, and marketplaces.



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Easy Supplier Onboarding

Efficiently integrate suppliers and effortlessly manage your data to provide accurate and up-to-date product information across all channels, optimize your product offerings, and streamline your operations.

A user-friendly supplier portal and automated onboarding processes enable quick and easy integration of suppliers, catalogs, and product information. Our centralized platform reduces communication and administrative overhead while accelerating the start of collaboration.

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Automated Supplier Product Integration

A simple and flexible workflow, including pre-filling all fields based on profile data, simplifies the reception, review, and distribution of product data, ensuring the latest product information is always available.

  • Support for all formats and classification systems
  • Quality assurance workflow for product data based on agreed quality criteria
  • Protected environment for retailers and suppliers

Faster Access to Quality Catalogs through Self-Service

Imagine your suppliers updating product catalogs and price lists independently in self-service. Automated workflows and quality assurance eliminate the need for manual data collection and management. This process efficiency ensures that product information is available in the highest quality nearly in real-time, significantly accelerating operations in product management, purchasing, and marketing.

Stay Updated on Prices and Price Changes

In addition to product information, price lists and changes can be directly provided by the supplier. Approval mechanisms ensure the adoption of correct price lists.

Price changes are fully recorded and are therefore accessible and analyzable later. Reviews of price changes can also be performed through calculation rules, relieving product managers of their control tasks. Additionally, the calculation of selling prices based on purchase prices can be supported through the application.

Efficient Compilation and Analysis of Assortments

Efficient analysis and management of assortments With powerful tools, assortments can be precisely analyzed, edited, and controlled – including the seamless merging of multiple supplier catalogs into a “Golden Record.”

Our assortment design includes, among other things:

  • Integration of long-tail products and flexible provision of shadow assortments
  • Precise and automated price processing and calculation
  • Automatic integration of product information into the sales assortment
  • Support for assortment expansion for new product groups and their management

Higher Quality of Product Information

Automated quality checks and standardization ensure homogeneous and high-quality product information and prevent erroneous data. In case of problematic data, suppliers and retailers or customers are immediately informed. All quality rules can be specifically utilized for product categories and suppliers. The appropriate corrections can be made promptly.

Harmonization of Product Data

Say goodbye to manual data management. Our solution automatically harmonizes data from different suppliers and transforms various catalog formats into a consistent and usable format. This automation not only saves time but also leads to optimal data quality, ensuring that your product data is always accurate and comprehensive.

Supplier catalogs can automatically be supplemented with additional customer-specific information to meet specific requirements. The correct data can be immediately integrated into internal product information.

Comprehensive Reporting, Integrated Error Management, and Real-Time Notifications

Erroneous data diminishes your customers' trust in your data and your company. Centralized data management, intelligent data enrichment, and structured and automated processes for data transfers and publications reduce manual entries and ensure consistent product data, thus increasing customer satisfaction.

Key Features

Customizable Workflow

Custom workflow for integrating specific suppliers, product groups, or customer-specific processes. All original product information from suppliers is logged and archived.

Industry Standards and Data Formats

Various import and data formats are configurable, allowing for easy integration of product information. Support for multiple grouping and classification systems is available simultaneously.

Performance

Fast processing of large catalogs with over 50,000 products including import, validation, search, and preview.

Change Log

For complete transparency and traceability, all product and price changes are logged.

Onboarding from ERP and CRM

Product data from ERP and CRM systems can be imported from customer systems, supplemented with supplier product information, and then used for additional customers or target systems.

Marketplaces

Also applicable for marketplace configurations with multiple customers and suppliers simultaneously.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, suppliers have the option to upload various documents such as images, data sheets, instructions, or videos alongside their catalogs. These are processed and validated during the upload process, ensuring they are correctly assigned and available in the PIM (Product Information Management) system afterwards.

Yes, a delta report shows you the differences between two catalog deliveries in detail. You can immediately see if and which prices were changed, if products were added or removed, or if other attributes were adjusted. Furthermore, the report allows you to trace the entire history of the catalog.

With prodexa PXM, you can process a variety of formats, including CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, XML formats, and industry-specific standards. Additionally, you can provide catalog upload templates to your suppliers to facilitate and standardize the upload process.

Yes, this is possible. You can define transparent rules and automations to specify exactly which products from the supplier are to be integrated into your product catalog. Additionally, you have the option to enrich these products with further features, information, prices, and documents, seamlessly integrating them into your product portfolio.