Managing Product Content in SRM-MDM Catalog

As a Catalog Manager, you use this business process to manage product information such as:
Catalog files (classification data)
Product content from suppliers
Product content from procurement systems (SAP ERP, SAP SRM)
This data can originate from MS Excel, XML, and TXT files for example, or directly from running database systems such as
MS Access, Oracle, and MS SQL Server.
In this process, you import classification structures and product data to the predefined repository structure of the SRMMDM Catalog. Using this process, you can also upload contracts. You can match and merge product data from backend
systems with product data from suppliers. You can check and enrich the product data, for example, check whether new
data has been assigned to the correct category in the taxonomy, and enrich data with additional information such as
images and attachments.
Moreover, you can use workflow rules for the approval of catalog content. Finally, by means of search patterns, you
maintain masks (views) and assign them to certain user groups.
Using validations, you can define complex tests for all types of conditions and then run those tests against one or more
records.
As an administrator, you can use this process to enable Web content. You configure the search screens of the SRM-MDM
Catalog and provide the environment for catalog users to search the content of an SRM-MDM Catalog repository via Web
browser.

Process

1. Import product hierarchy (SRM-MDM Catalog)

2. Upload supplier product data (SRM-MDM Catalog)
3. Map imported hierarchy and products to repository (SRM-MDM Catalog)
4. Transfer info records and contracts from ERP (SAP ERP)
5. Transfer product data from SRM (SAP SRM Server)
6. Transfer contract data from SRM (SAP SRM Server)
7. Enrich product data (SRM-MDM Catalog)
8. Approve product data (SRM-MDM Catalog)
9. Define masks (SRM-MDM Catalog)
10. Define validations (SRM-MDM Catalog)
11. Enable web content (SRM-MDM Catalog)