A hosted supplier catalog is used to enable employees to purchase products and services from a suppliers assortment without having to create all part number and pricing information in the system.
This activity is used by the supplier to upload product lines to the hosted supplier catalog using a csv file (comma-separated values file). To upload the lines from the file, it needs to follow the format defined for the file and separated using the attribute defined for the file type HostSupCatProdLineFileType in the External File Type page.
The below table shows an example of the columns that should be included. All columns needs to be represented in the csv file and separated even if they are empty. For the ones marked with an asterisk, values are mandatory for the file to be uploaded.
| Supplier Part No* | Supplier Part Description | UoM* | Price* | Supplier Product Category | Lead Time | Image Url | Manufacturer Part No | Manufacturer Name |
| PART10 | Part 10 | pcs | 150 | 10010001 | 5 | Image url | PRODUCT1 | Manufacturer |
As a result of this activity lines will be uploaded to the catalog from the file and the supplier will be able to submit the hosted supplier catalog. When the supplier catalog is submitted it can be reviewed and approved.