GXS Catalogue™

GXS Catalogue is an easy to use, hosted SaaS application that enables retailers and merchandise suppliers to synchronise product data such as price, colour, size, style and GTIN. With its unsurpassed breadth as the industry’s largest database of product information—more than 130 million current and unique items—it is the cornerstone for global retail product synchronisation.

GXS Catalogue offers a complete solution for item setup, maintenance and synchronisation, supporting the latest EAN.UCC System global standards and initiatives. With a proven track record for enabling retail supply chain automation, GXS ensures fast, reliable product catalogue setup and support to reduce time to market, driving an immediate increase in sales.

  • Data Synchronisation—Using GXS Catalogue retailers can subscribe to catalogue updates from their supplier community. Merchandise suppliers can publish their catalogues to multiple retailers.
  • Data Attributes—GXS Catalogue supports a wide range of attributes for each product including GTIN, brand name, NRF colour code; NRF size code and suggested retail price.
  • Data Validation—In addition to synchronising data, GXS Catalogue can also be configured to provide validations. Standard validations include data formats for GTIN, dates and code lists. Optional validations include booking date, country of origin and minimum order quantity.
  • Multiple Connectivity Options—GXS Catalogue offers connectivity options for both large and small trading partners including EDI 832, PRICAT, qXML, file upload and a web portal.

GXS Catalogue delivers immediate benefits to retailers and suppliers.

As a retailer, data synchronisation can provide benefits such as:

  • A single source for high quality and timely supplier data to reduce merchandising administrative costs
  • Automated item setup improving time to market
  • Reduced POS scanning errors improves customer service and reduces reconciliation costs

Suppliers can gain the following benefits from data synchronisation:

  • Faster receipt of confirmed orders to improve their manufacturing forecasts
  • Accurate orders thus reducing administrative costs, shipping charge-backs, and invoice deductions
  • Better utilisation of sales force to reduce the overall cost to serve