Manage Products in the Master Catalog

The Manage Products in the Master Catalog is a feature that allows a user to add information to the products so that the products have complete definitions.

Key Term:
  • Partner Engagement Platform (PEP): A portal which allows customer’s partners to engage with their system. Deployed for supplier engagement, collaboration, product onboarding, simple PIM and product data onboarding/offboarding.
Description:
  • Master Catalog allows a user to manage all products at the time of onboarding.
  • The feature also allows a user to manage all the content and data of a product before transferring it to PIM.
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Application:
  • The Master Catalog feature can permit users to manage all of the product content.

  • Example:

    An organization has a user who manages all the products in the Master Catalog and there are Suppliers A and B, who sell furniture and fashion products. User gives permission for Data Integration to both suppliers. They proceeded with onboarding of their products and transferring to the Master Catalog, where all the Products are verified and corrected by the user, if necessary.

How-to: Add Additional Information in the Product

To add additional information to products, follow these steps:


  • Log in as Supplier, go to Onboarding and click on the Data Integration tab.
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  • Under the applicable inbound endpoint created for a specific organization, click on the Import File button.
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  • Select the onboarding file.
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  • Go to Catalog and select the product.
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  • Click on the Properties tab.
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  • Add information (e.g. Long Description) to the product and click on the Save button.
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  • View the content that was added successfully to the product.
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