Vendor data & new item setup for manufacturers

As a manufacturer or brand, you depend on product information twice. On the buying side, items you source from suppliers need complete, accurate records before they reach your ERP. On the selling side, dealers, distributors and retailers order from you against your product information, and every wrong pack size or unit of measure becomes a problem on their order, their shipment and their invoice.

Your supply chain is your customer experience, and clean product data is where a perfect order begins.

SPICE Catalog™ is the supplier-facing product-data layer of the SPICE™ Supply Chain Collaboration Platform. You define the attributes, required fields and category rules for each item type. Suppliers submit through EDI 832, API, a data pool, a spreadsheet or a web form, whichever suits them. SPICE™ validates every submission, sends specific feedback to the supplier when something is missing and publishes the record your team approves to your ERP, PIM and other systems.

Supplier products and GTINs are cross-referenced to your SKUs and item hierarchy, with reusable mapping templates for later submissions. Every brand and business unit can work from one governed process instead of its own spreadsheet.

SPICE Catalog™ works alongside your PIM, MDM or data pool rather than replacing them. It makes sure what reaches those systems is complete.

Product data uses the same supplier connections and rules as procure to pay with your suppliers on SPICE™, so each supplier works in one governed process.

• SPICE Insight™ shows submission status, outstanding information and exceptions by supplier.
• SPICE Connect™ runs supplier outreach and onboarding, so your team isn’t managing a project per supplier.

When you add a brand, a region or an acquired business, its suppliers join the process you already run. Read more about vendor data and new item setup or how SPICE™ works for manufacturers and brands.