Catalog Visibility refers to the ability within procurement systems to effectively manage and have transparent access to available goods and services. It involves ensuring that all procurement stakeholders, such as purchasing managers and requisitioners, can view and select items from an organized catalog, supporting informed decision-making and compliance with procurement policies.
Key Benefits
– Enhanced Spend Visibility: By leveraging comprehensive catalog visibility, organizations gain improved insights into their procurement spend, identifying areas for potential savings and increasing transparency across the procurement process.
– Improved Compliance: Catalog visibility supports adherence to procurement policies by ensuring that purchases align with approved budgets and categories, reducing the risk of non-compliant spending.
– Streamlined Procurement Processes: With clear catalog visibility, procurement teams can streamline their processes, making it easier to track orders, manage inventory, and reduce the time and effort required to manage procure-to-pay cycles.
– Reduced Maverick Spending: Enhanced visibility into available catalogs helps to limit unauthorized purchases, often referred to as maverick spending, ensuring that procurement decisions are made within the scope of company policies.
– Better Supplier Management: Increased visibility into product catalogs allows procurement teams to better manage supplier relationships, leading to improved negotiations and optimized supplier performance.
Related Terms
– Enhanced Spend Visibility: By leveraging comprehensive catalog visibility, organizations gain improved insights into their procurement spend, identifying areas for potential savings and increasing transparency across the procurement process.
– Improved Compliance: Catalog visibility supports adherence to procurement policies by ensuring that purchases align with approved budgets and categories, reducing the risk of non-compliant spending.
– Streamlined Procurement Processes: With clear catalog visibility, procurement teams can streamline their processes, making it easier to track orders, manage inventory, and reduce the time and effort required to manage procure-to-pay cycles.
– Reduced Maverick Spending: Enhanced visibility into available catalogs helps to limit unauthorized purchases, often referred to as maverick spending, ensuring that procurement decisions are made within the scope of company policies.
– Better Supplier Management: Increased visibility into product catalogs allows procurement teams to better manage supplier relationships, leading to improved negotiations and optimized supplier performance.
References
Explore Zycus resources to learn more about Catalog Visibility:
- Fine Tuning the Procurement Symphony with Source-to-Pay Automation – Part 1; Smart Data, Visibility and more..
- 4 Key Procurement Objectives for 2014: Part 2 – Improving Visibility
- Spend Analysis: Visibility for Intelligent decision-making – Benchmark Report
- Revolutionize Procurement with Zycus Catalog Solution
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