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Product and pricing comparison between vendors is difficult since you must “punch out” of one catalog and into another, navigating between sometimes hundreds of open tabs.

Five challenges of juggling multiple PunchOut catalogs Once an end user must navigate multiple PunchOut sites from their procure-to-pay (P2P) platform, such as Ariba, Jaggaer, or Coupa, the process quickly loses its luster. We’ve all heard that more is more, right? Well, in the case of PunchOut catalogs, more is, unfortunately, less. So, what is a PunchOut? A PunchOut catalog cuts out a few steps in the procurement process by auto-generating a requisition, the approval of which triggers the issuance of a purchase order. To be honest, the world of PunchOuts hasn’t changed much today. But what if you were a purchaser with unique needs, like those in the biopharma, R&D or life sciences industries? What if you faced a time crunch, needed to compare products and prices across multiple vendors, or required a specialized item? Or, what if you needed to access independent lab supply reviews plus real-time product availability status? You would’ve been out of luck. This describes many people’s first experience with a PunchOut catalog. But, at the time it was actually pretty revolutionary.

Simple, right? Okay, in hindsight, not really. You’d pull up the preferred vendor’s catalog, search for a new stapler or mousepad, add them to your cart, return to the purchasing system, generate the requisition, issue the purchase order, get it approved, do the paperwork, place the order, hope the items were still in stock, wait for the supplies to arrive, and then pay. Back in the early 2000s, the hot new thing was to order office supplies right from your work computer.

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