Make Buying Easier for Your Customers

Making your catalogs available to customers electronically speeds time to revenue and makes buying more efficient for your customers. With the Ketera Network catalog management solution, all your products are in one place for all buyers to access, whether through private buying networks or the public portion of the network. Keeping up to date on every product change becomes extremely efficient with Ketera Network catalog management solution.

Ketera enables suppliers to:

Create, enrich, update and manage catalogs even without internal technology expertise, so you are easy to do business with
Present catalogs to anyone on the network, irrespective of their eProcurement system
Host Catalogs

Because it's all OnDemand and part of the same network, as soon as your catalogs are published to the network they become instantly available to all the active buyers. This makes it easy for your existing customers to do business with you, while extending your opportunities to as many as an additional 100,000 buyers in the Ketera Network.

Key Capabilities include :

Create Catalogs: Use simple excel based configurable templates to collect catalog information.
Workflow: Specify the review and approval process to create catalogs and keep them current. Determine appropriate workflow routing based on changes to any element in the data (e.g., price change approval)
Validation Rules: Specify validation rules to standardize catalog content and improve data quality (e.g., unit of measure). Automatically check conformity to various standards such as UNSPSC, eClass, RUS (Requisite Unified Schema), SIC, NAICS or any custom commodity scheme
Versioning: Comprehensive version management including differences between any two versions of a catalog
Complex Catalogs: Author catalogs with region-based pricing and different commodity structures with relative ease
Effectivity: Support catalog de-activation and effectivity dates
Export Data: Export catalog in multiple formats such as cXML, Requisite, .csv, and .xls

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“ We selected the Ketera eRFX tool because it is quick to implement, cost effective and drives efficiencies into the sourcing process. Its portal design streamlines the communication, document traffic and analysis associated with conducting our RFPs. The entire Ketera package has allowed us to run more events with fewer resources, leading to increased procurement efficiencies. ” Michael Feeney Vice President, Corporate Procurement for U.S. Bank

“ We recognized an opportunity to enhance our purchasing process with state–of–the–art technology – without the up–front investment and ongoing resource commitment associated with the implementation of enterprise software. ” Mitch Plaat VP Contract Services for Con-way

“ Ketera′s on demand solution is ahead of the competition – we will be able to implement the solution in weeks and we never have to worry about taking the system down to install upgrades or make changes. ” Steve Kenny Vice President Risk Management and General Services for Columbia Credit Union

“ From the beginning, Ketera explained everything to us, both from the technical and sales side. They′ve accommodated our needs and have been very helpful and responsive. ” Michael Kapeles Senior Supply Manager for Cabot Microelectronics

“ Not only does Ketera provide innovative solutions for spend management, they also offer high quality professional services that let you get the most from their solutions. Working with Ketera is like a breath of fresh air. ” Nick Walker Procurement Manager for BTP

“ Ketera's new solution is really an amazing innovation that will revolutionize the purchasing industry. ” Dian Trosclair VP of Supply Chain Management for ServiceMaster

“ Using Ketera, we've lowered our costs and improved our compliance with negotiated corporate contracts. By buying on contract, we typically see a ten percent reduction in cost. ” Jim Cebula Director of Global Purchasing for Kennametal