Companies and vendors maintain product catalogs and brochures in various mediums such as websites or PDF brochures. Procurement and logistics teams need access to these digital catalogs in particular formats. These formats could be as simple as a spreadsheet or a more sophisticated standard format compatible with the latest electronic data interchange standards.

Regardless of what format recommended to a vendor by a buyer or procurement team, having a defined standard when exchanging product and service data is always incredibly useful.

A standard product or services catalog format can help align thinking of vendors, procurement and logistics stakeholders. This helps all external and internal stakeholders reach consensus on product and service availability with greater focus and accuracy. Overall, this accelerates procurement to the benefit of both vendor and buyer teams.

RefDB works with vendors and procurement leaders to offer education and training related to best practices for product and service catalog management.

Our team of product catalog experts will take you through our proven process to discover ways to expeditiously meet your goals.

Your dedicated training and support team will be available, at any time, to discuss one or more of the following:

Education and Training Strategy: Review your product and service cataloging needs and discuss training goals that would help your team get setup efficiently. Learning best practices of how to maintain a standard product or services catalog format can help align thinking of vendors, procurement and logistics stakeholders.

Catalog Format Recommendations: Our team will recommend an optimal catalog format that you can leverage for your specific use-cases. We will walk you through creating a catalog file so that you can internally take the lead on creating future versions.

24x7x365 Support: Even with the best training and guides, we know that situations arise when cataloging and related technical support is required. Our team is always available via phone, email and chat to help resolve cataloging issues and enable you to reach your target sooner.

Deliverables

A dedicated training lead will build and present to you a cataloging education curriculum with suggested milestones. Training milestones may be set based on a schedule determined by your team. We will also provide access to a variety of e-learning resources to help you get setup at your own pace.

Getting Started

Once your RefDB services are started, an expert on our educational and training team will contact you to kick off our educational partnership and start discussing timelines, goals, and next steps.