Oracle A75089-02 - Manual (Page 82)

Running the Price / Sales Catalog Inbound (CATI) Program
7-4 Oracle e-Commerce Gateway User’s Guide
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide
Viewing the Status of Concurrent Programs on page 9-7
Running the Price / Sales Catalog Inbound (CATI) Program
Use this transaction to import supplier catalogs into your Purchasing system as
Catalog Quotes. This supports catalog lookup and purchase order placement.
During the import process, supplier sourcing rules may be added to Oracle
Purchasing, and the Oracle Inventory item master may be updated with catalog
item changes or new catalog items.
Prerequisite Setup in Oracle Purchasing
Allow updating of item description in Purchasing Options.
Prerequisite Setup in Oracle Inventory
Allow the updating of item status codes at the site level. Set the INV: Default Item
Status profile to Active.
Prerequisites
❏ Create the inbound directory and update the INIT.ORA file. See: Defining Data
File Directories, Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual, Release 11i.
❏ Define the ECE: Inbound file path profile option. See: e-Commerce Gateway
Profile Options, Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual, Release 11i.
❏ Define trading partner relationships and enable EDI transactions for the trading
partner. See: Defining Trading Partner Data on page 3-4.
❏ Define code conversions. See: Defining Code Conversion Categories on
page 4-8, Assigning Categories on page 4-10, and Defining Code Conversion
Values on page 4-15.
❏ Customize interface data file layout, if necessary. See: Changing the Interface
Data File Record Layout on page 5-2.
◗◗ To run the Price / Sales Catalog inbound program:
1. Navigate to the Import Program window.
2. Select Request to submit an individual request.
3. Select the Catalog Inbound request.