Content provider LOG-TEK (Pty) Ltd launches a "first of its kind in the world" - e-CATS online - a self-contained HTML-based cataloguing tool allowing vendors, suppliers and manufacturers to catalogue their own items and parts for e-commerce, e-procurement solutions and ERP applications. The high cost of cataloguing and the complications of publishing sophisticated content for e-commerce solutions is what led LOG-TEK (Pty) Ltd to develop e-CATS online. e-CATS online empowers vendors, suppliers and manufacturers to create and maintain their own content with little or no intervention from third-party content factories while reducing the cost of publishing sophisticated content by more than 50%.
e-CATS online not only supports cataloguing functions for vendors, suppliers and manufacturers but also has build in functionality for Net market-makers and market sites to view the product offering from individual vendors, suppliers and manufacturers. This enables Net market-makers to "pull" sophisticated content as and when required as opposed to waiting for "push" of content from product sources, ensuring that version control of catalogues is achieved.
e-CATS online furthermore allows for full online reporting of all content at commercial and technical level, including vendor, supplier and manufacturer generated export files in Tab Delimited, XML, CIF and all other known formats.
Benefits include:
For suppliers
Online templates/formats per industry type for creating, updating and managing catalogues
Online Noun/Modifier, UNSPSC, characteristic/attribute allocation and mapping
Online commercial information allocation (ie Price, Lead Time, Bar Codes, Warranty, Specials, UOM, UOI, UOP, etc.)
Buyer-specific commercial information can be created, maintained and published for individual items/parts
Online validation of published catalogues
Publish once and access multiple Net market-makers, buyers and e-procurement solutions including ERP installations in their preferred format (ie XML, CIF, cXML, etc.)
Suppliers satisfy buyer needs for rich content while maintaining a means to differentiate their products and capabilities
Costs of cataloguing are reduced even further while reducing third-party content factory interdependence and increasing turn around times
Online account management through dynamically generated invoices
Full catalogue search engine including parametric data searches
Mass price and lead time upload functionality
Seamless integration into other applications
For marketplace operators
Includes small and large suppliers into marketplace in a cost-effective manner
Catalogue sourcing and aggregation without the need for large content departments or third-party content factories
Well-defined workflow for catalogue creation, maintenance and management
Catalogue validation and approval
No lag time between catalogue creation/maintenance and appearance on market site/e-procurement solution
Marketplace branding
Full catalogue search engine including parametric data searches
Seamless integration into other applications
"LOG-TEK`s 30 year experience in creating and maintaining content combined with our established infrastructure in South Africa and our existing relationships in the e-commerce environment positioned us to understand what the content market needs and to develop e-CATS online," concludes Max Batinti, Marketing Director for LOG-TEK (Pty) Ltd.
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