A procurement catalog is a file that lists the goods and services that a supplier or service provider offers. Names of products or services, descriptions, levels of hierarchy, prices, and internal codes are the main components of a catalog. E-catalogs, often known as online catalogs, allow customers to place orders and make payments online.
Purchasing professionals can create catalogs for products that are for internal usage within a business. But, once catalogs are set up, staff members of the organization can make purchase requests to place orders from them.
The usage of catalogs can enforce purchase regulations. Also, limiting what employees can order to what is permitted by their buying legal organization. The following tasks should be taken into regard when creating a procurement catalog:
Before you establish the catalog, set up your procurement category structure.
Choose the products that you want your staff to be able to order. In a catalog node, you have the option to show or hide particular products as well as the entire node's contents.
Calculate the number of procurement catalogs you need. The catalog management rule that you specify for the legal person and operational unit that a worker is assigned to determines who has access to a procurement catalog.