Initial situation

from the supplier's perspective:

• You have to classify products and record features according to your customer's specifications
• You must create electronic catalogues (with customer-specific prices and specifications)
• Your customer only wants to receive part of your total range
• Your customer wants classified data which, among other things, is eCl@ss or ETIM-compliant with product-specific features

From the buyer's perspective:

• Checking your suppliers' catalogues using your own format is very time-consuming.
• You supply large quantities of products in categories.
• You recode your product group system from old to new.
• You want to restructure your product group system.

The solution: e-proCAT

e-proCAT links tasks like no other software: product data processing, product group recoding, multiple classification, manual and automatic feature recording, MIME type management, product line generation and adjustment, plus image management.

Economic benefits

• You open up new sales markets via the Internet as a sales channel
• You increase your sales opportunities by supplying customers with correctly prepared, high-quality data
• You speed up and rationalise the procurement and purchasing processes

Product strengths

• Extremely fast catalogue production, even with large quantities of items (40,000 data records per minute)
• Automatic catalogue processing function in batch mode
• Automatic classification
• Automatic property capture
• Data standardisation and data refinement
• Product group recoding
• Product line generation

e-proCAT is the only software that bears and processes the BMEcat 2005 catalogue standard:

• Create multilingual product catalogues and multi-supplier catalogues
• Dynamic price model (price formulas rather than fixed figures)
• Product description enhanced by logistical information (e.g. customs information)
• Many new features for product, price, availability and quotation enquiries