Vendor data & new item setup / Vendor data & new item setup for distributors
SPICE™ gives distributors one governed process to collect, validate and publish item data from the manufacturers they buy from, so the same accurate records support purchasing, branches and customer ordering.
You buy from hundreds of manufacturers and sell to contractors, businesses and retailers. Every item you stock begins with information from a manufacturer, and every customer order depends on that information being right. When it isn’t, the error travels in both directions: to the supplier PO and to the customer’s order.
Your supply chain is your customer experience, and for a distributor clean product data sits right in the middle of it.
SPICE Catalog™ is the supplier-facing product-data layer of the SPICE™ Supply Chain Collaboration Platform. You set the attributes, required fields and category rules for each product line. Each manufacturer submits through EDI 832, API, a data pool, a spreadsheet or a web form, so large brands and suppliers not on EDI follow the same process.
SPICE™ validates every submission and sends gaps back to the manufacturer with specific feedback, so corrections happen at the source. Supplier products and GTINs are cross-referenced to your SKUs and item hierarchy, with reusable mapping templates for later submissions. Your team approves the complete record, and SPICE™ publishes it to your ERP, PIM and e-commerce systems.
SPICE Catalog™ works alongside your PIM, MDM or data pool rather than replacing them. It fills the distributor-specific attributes standard data misses.
Distributors need product data to work for buying and selling at once. With SPICE™, one set of approved records supports both:
SPICE Insight™ shows submission status and flags exceptions by manufacturer, and SPICE Connect™ can run supplier outreach and onboarding for the program.
SPICE Catalog™ handles product lines with frequent new items and changing suppliers, and gets item data ready for the customers who see it when you sell online. Read more about vendor data and new item setup or how SPICE™ works for distributors.
Item records are validated before they reach the ERP, so product information stays accurate across branches and regions.
Accurate item, pack and unit information carries through from supplier PO to customer delivery.
You decide what “complete” means for each product line, approve every record and see which manufacturers have outstanding items. Suppliers do the corrections, not your master-data team.
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FAQ
It's how a distributor collects, checks and maintains the item information it receives from manufacturers and uses to sell. With SPICE™, manufacturers submit data in the formats they already use, SPICE Catalog™ validates it against your rules, suppliers fix gaps at the source and approved records are published to your ERP and other systems.
Yes. SPICE Trade™ uses the approved product information for customer ordering, with account-specific catalogs and contracted pricing, and SPICE Web OMS™, SPICE Trade™ and SPICE Digital Document Service™ check item data against SPICE Catalog™ in real time on both sides.
Yes. Suppliers not on EDI submit through a spreadsheet or a web form, and their data goes through the same validation as an EDI 832, API or data pool submission.
No. It works as the supplier-facing layer alongside your PIM, MDM or data pool, gathering and validating manufacturer data before it reaches those systems.
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We’ll walk through how SPICE Catalog™ collects and validates item data from your manufacturers, in whatever format they use, so the same records serve purchasing, branches and customer ordering.