PunchOut enabled

Ariba is the maker of an eprocurement system that many large companies, organizations, governments, and universities use to manage their spend management and purchasing processes.

Some organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies or large government entities, purchases their goods and services exclusively through these systems. That means that if you want to do business with them as a vendor or supplier, you must have the ability to connect to their system through either a “hosted” or “PunchOut catalog”.

Because most buyers prefer PunchOut catalogs due to the more user-friendly buying experience, it makes sense to make your offerings PunchOut ready (PunchOut enabled). That is, if doing business with multiple large clients makes good business sense for you.

What is a PunchOut catalog?

A PunchOut Catalog is an ecommerce solution for presenting and managing your products within a buyer’s eprocurement system.  The term, “punchout” is derived from the action the system takes to access your online catalog.

Using protocols defined by eprocurement systems like Ariba, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, SciQuest (and others), you create an online catalog specific to each organization.  The buyer can then browse their eprocurement system and find a link to your punchout catalog. When they select it , they “punch out” to your PunchOut catalog site that has products and prices unique to them.

Punchout catalogs are also referred to as CXML PunchOuts, punchout websites, punchout sites, and punchout enabled online catalogs.

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