Volkswagen AG has purchased a Peregrine Systems electronic catalogue system for the company’s global e-procurement system.
The system will be used across the entire Volkswagen Group, including Audi, Skoda and Seat, and comprises catalogue software, content management services and search engine capabilities.
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“The new Peregrine system will help Volkswagen post catalogues, aggregate data from its entire trading community and then manage that data for posting in its global e-procurement system,” said Klaus Osterloh, manager of B2B-project catalogue purchasing at Volkswagen.
“It will not only help us move our purchasing to the next level of e-procurement, but will ensure the integrity of our data. In e-procurement, if you can’t find precise items within a catalogue, you can’t close a purchase, nor can you reap the full benefit from e-trading on the net.”
Volkswagen suppliers send their data to an e-commerce portal where the information is transformed, validated and consolidated. The converted data is subsequently sent to Volkswagen.
A gatekeeper tool enables the purchasing department at Volkswagen to verify and proof-read the data sent by the suppliers. After individual items are either accepted or rejected, they are sent to the internal catalogue to be used for optimal searches.
