Purchasing organisations, hospitals and government bodies order from their own procurement system and expect suppliers to connect to it. The OCI plugin on PLGGR | Order Entry makes your catalogue punchout ready, as software as a service rather than a custom project.
OCI stands for Open Catalog Interface, a standard set by SAP to connect procurement systems to supplier catalogues.
With a punchout, a buyer jumps from their own procurement system into a supplier's web catalogue, picks products there and returns with a filled basket. The order then runs through the customer's procurement process, with approvals and budgets as the customer has set them up.
Who asks for it
Large buyers order less and less by email, phone or a separate webshop. They order in their own system, within their own agreements.
What buyers expect
If you do not connect to that, you make the buyer work harder, and you feel it in your revenue.
The plugin on PLGGR | Order Entry makes your catalogue punchout ready and is fully OCI compatible.
PLGGR supports the integration with several OCI ordering platforms, including SAP Ariba and GHX.
The buyer opens their own procurement system and picks you as supplier.
The punchout opens your catalogue, with that customer's range and prices.
The buyer picks products and returns with a filled basket.
The customer approves in their own system, and the order reaches you.
Your customer stays in their own system. You sit inside their procurement process.
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