Catalog Hub is a web application for maintaining catalogs in the e-procurement system. Users work only with their Excel catalog file and the web interface; Catalog Hub takes care of the technical steps in the system – creating and activating background jobs – automatically.
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Catalog maintenance often means checking files by hand, setting up technical steps in the system and transferring price lists line by line. Catalog Hub takes these steps off your hands.
Validate and upload the catalog file: errors in red, warnings in yellow, the marked-up file for download and an explanation for every rule. On upload, Catalog Hub checks the catalog name against the e-procurement system and imports item data, conditions and material groups as three jobs – with a live log and a record of who imported what and when.
PDF, Word or Excel automatically becomes a finished catalog: an AI reads supplier price lists or bills of quantities (PDF, Word, Excel or CSV) and generates a catalog Excel file in the import format of the e-procurement system. Up to 25 PDFs can be combined, scanned PDFs are read via OCR, and your own extraction notes are passed to the AI. A quality report flags critical points in red and notes in yellow.
GAEB bills of quantities are turned into catalogs: a catalog Excel file is created from the bill of quantities (X82/X83) and prices (X84/X85/X84P) or from a single X86 file – without AI, purely from the structured GAEB data and with a rule check.
For procurement and catalog teams that maintain catalogs in their e-procurement system – with Excel catalog files, supplier price lists or GAEB bills of quantities.
On AWS in Frankfurt, Germany. The catalog wizard uses AI models through Amazon Bedrock in the same region.
Catalog Hub connects directly to the e-procurement system: it creates and activates the required background jobs automatically; users work only with their Excel catalog file and the web interface. The connection is system-specific – we clarify which systems are supported in an initial call.
In the catalog wizard: an AI reads supplier price lists or bills of quantities as PDF, Word, Excel or CSV and generates a catalog Excel file in the import format of the e-procurement system. GAEB catalog creation works without AI, purely from the structured GAEB data.
No. The result is a proposal. The quality report shows where rework is needed; the file is imported only after review – via new catalog creation or a catalog update.
With a Microsoft account (single sign-on). The navigation only shows the functions a user is authorised for.
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