Electronic catalog management
The ZF Group operates an e-commerce catalog system containing electronic catalogs for operating supplies, including office supplies, manual tools and IT equipment.
Guidelines
Assumption for the participation in the E-Commerce-catalogue system by ZF is an eCommerce contract. Participating suppliers deliver electronic catalog data based of BMEcat format. This format has been developed by the eBusiness Standardization Committee (eBSC) together with the German Association for Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (BME), and has become established in Germany as the standard format for exchanging catalog data. Requirements specific to ZF are added to the specifications of BMEcat (see following download).
The catalog datas must be classified in accordance with eCl@ss 5.1.3. All catalogs are checked electronically before being forwarded to ZF.
In addition to setting up static online catalogs, under certain circumstances ZF also offers options to connect Internet shops to the catalog system via OCI interfaces. OCI (Open Catalog Interface) is based on the SAP interface standards for transmitting catalog data. A shopping cart compiled in the Internet shop is transmitted to the ordering system used by ZF.
EDIFACT is the ZF standard for electronic interchange of commercial documents and business messages. EDIFACT ORDER D.97 is used for orders and EDIFACT INVOIC D.97 is used for credit memos.
