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Plain explanations of how supplier catalogs, buyer systems and the connections between them actually work. Written by people who have run them.
14 Oct 2026 · Buying guides
How to Evaluate a Supplier Catalog Management Platform: A Buyer's Checklist
A neutral checklist for evaluating catalog management platforms: ingestion breadth, protocol coverage, mapping depth, and isolation claims to question.
6 Oct 2026 · Buying guides
Build vs Buy: Should You Build Your Own Catalog Integration Layer?
What building a catalog integration layer takes, when it's the right call, when it isn't, and how to frame build-versus-buy cost honestly, not as a pitch.
29 Sept 2026 · PunchOut
Jaggaer Catalog and PunchOut Integration: A Practical Setup Guide
Hosted catalog versus PunchOut in Jaggaer, the supplier enablement steps for each, the cXML profile Jaggaer expects, and the most common validation errors.
15 Sept 2026 · PunchOut
Coupa PunchOut Integration: What Buyers and Suppliers Each Configure
How a Coupa PunchOut connection actually gets built: what Coupa calls each piece, who configures what, and where its cXML implementation diverges from Ariba's.
1 Sept 2026 · PunchOut
PunchOut Setup for SAP Ariba: cXML Requirements and Common Failures
What SAP Ariba requires for a working PunchOut connection, the cXML documents involved, and the configuration mistakes behind most first-round failures.
18 Aug 2026 · Catalog data
Mapping Supplier Items to UNSPSC at Scale
Why classifying supplier catalogs against UNSPSC is expensive, how four-level codes work, and how manual, rule-based and assisted mapping compare at scale.
4 Aug 2026 · Catalog data
Catalog Data Quality: The Errors That Break Supplier Uploads
Errors that fail or silently corrupt catalog uploads: bad units of measure, price precision, duplicate SKUs, wrong classification codes, dead image links.
21 Jul 2026 · File formats
Supplier Catalog File Formats in Practice: CSV, Excel, BMEcat and cXML Compared
How CSV, Excel, BMEcat and cXML catalog files differ in structure and failure modes, and which one shows up depending on who asks and what system gets it.
7 Jul 2026 · PunchOut
SAP S/4HANA and OCI PunchOut: Setup, Field Mapping, and Gotchas
OCI PunchOut vs cXML, the NEW_ITEM- fields S/4HANA expects back, and the encoding and decimal-separator mistakes that break a working-looking connection.