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. The supplier catalog is normally uploaded from a file, either by the procurement department or directly by the supplier.
Use this activity to enter the header part of the hosted supplier catalog. Specify the owning site for the catalog and the categorization basis which is used to map the categories communicated by the supplier in the catalog with one of the categorization dimensions in your application. The categorization dimensions to use is Purchase Groups, Supplier Assortments or Procurement Category Assortments.
As a result of this activity: