My companys eCommerce Web site is an important differentiator for us. Can the Ariba Network take advantage of it?
Yes. Procurement applications and the Ariba Network support a protocol called PunchOut, which gives buying organizations access to your Web site and its product and service content. For PunchOut catalogs, procurement applications display a hyperlink instead of product or pricing details. Users select this hyperlink to directly access specific pages on your local site. Depending on how you implement those pages, users can browse product options, specify configurations, and select delivery methods. All of your Web site’s features, including user authentication and personalization, can be made available to buying organizations. When users finish browsing your site, they click a button that returns the order information to procurement applications. The fully configured products and their prices appear within procurement applications on user purchase orders.
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