The document discusses catalogue strategies for procurement. It describes the benefits and drawbacks of different catalogue options including no catalogue, hosted catalogues, and punchout catalogues. It also summarizes perspectives from different companies on what buyers and sellers want from catalogues and debates whether buyers and sellers can have aligned interests. The document advocates for an approach that considers each commodity and user needs to determine the best catalogue strategy.
Alexander’s current role is the definition and development of new Schweitzer products to meet changes in customer and user behavior. He also acts as the in house e-Procurement expert.Alex has 15+ years of working in eCommerce with 3 years of software development experience, and 10 years of sell-side and 1.5 years of buy-side eCommerce experience.Alex was leading Schweitzers Corporate business for 5 years (mainly e-Procurement-based) and then left to head a technology based procurement services company for 1.5 years. With the buy-side experience gained he now rejoined Schweitzer to support the evolution of the companies products to adjust to the changes in user behavior and demands. His original background is software development
Seller and Buyer15+ years of eCommerce experience3+ software, 10 sell side, 1.5 buy side, now back to the sell side
companies spend as much on professional information as they spend on office-supplies – sometimes even more …… but they don‘t know how much exactly and what for (newspapers, journals, books, e-books, databases, lincenses, documents, standards, …)with Schweitzer being their one and only source they know – every minutewe handle and manage all subscriptions (about 80% of the costs are reccuring)we even save them 10, 20 sometimes up to 40 % of their spending and up to 80% on process costsour business model: trading, so basically we are a bookseller or like somebody at an SAP meeting once called it: media subscription service provider ….
Achim T. OberhauserHead of Corporate Business since 2/2010> 10 years experience in sales and ecommerce
Basic online offering. No enhanced content. Generic. (SMB Market)Customers demands. Multiple Bids/requirements for capability. (BAML/Amex/JPMC)Growth (option to grow/need to enable growth). (Value Wales)Maturity of product business / focus on new strategic solution -> services. (JLP)
Be compliant with marketplaces. Ariba, ValueWales, PECOSOffer standard online catalogues, direct and punchout. Self registration options, BPCatalogue Feed, Uploads. Some customers only want this. BBCRespond to bids with standard message but with extend of flexibilityOwnership of the catalogues. Will customer use it. Some customers compare online price to previous price or competition NYSEInconsistencies across customer base.Some customers use their own – CarestreamSome resistance customers against punchout, VerizonOnline details.Stock level feeds – vary from distribution channels. Some are hourly, others once a dayCustom portal categorizations. CA, attempt didn’t workCustomers not fully using the catalogue, so education needed. GSKTransparency of pricing, build up of trust. UBSEducation of catalogue management, bring all sides togetherPortfolio of catalogue options, Flat file, PDF/PDF/XML/BMECat. Good for CC GroupWorked with Marketplaces, internal teams, Procserve
The effect on invoicing. If the catalogue is not correct, the PO isnt accurate. Leads to late payment, disputes, queries, confrontations etc. Credit Control have additional work to retrieve the money owed