The Advantage Catalog Management process accepts an additional industry standard catalog file format supported by Ariba’s Catalog Interchange Format (CIF). A transformation process transforms the contents of a CIF file to the Catalog File Format (Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 .xlsx file) supported by Advantage.
The transformation upload process is accessible either via the Catalog Upload sub section within the VSS Catalog Management main section in Advantage’s Vendor Self Service (VSS) application or using the Transform Catalog page accessible by clicking the Transform hyperlink on the Catalog File page via the Advantage Financial application.
There are several parameters (that is, CATALOG_ADMIN_NM, CATALOG_ADMIN_EMAIL, and CATUPLD_MAX_ERR_LIMIT) on the Application Parameters (APPCRL) table that should be set up prior to performing the transformation process. Refer to the “Application Parameters (APPCTRL)” topic for more information.
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