Synchronizing catalogs with suppliers is a well-known prerequisite to supply chain integration and e-procurement. iICE Buyer Edition is designed to help buying organizations extract the full benefits of their procurement systems. iICE facilitates the supplier enablement process by giving purchasing departments the ability to process and manage product catalogs:

iICE Buyer Edition allows product data to be aggregated, cleansed, transformed, categorized, and then integrated into the buyer's procurement engines or in-house business systems (including ERP, e-procurement, inventory management or merchandising).

iICE Enterprise Edition is specifically designed for the wholesale or retail distributor with a large and diverse range of products (SKUs).

Merchandising and marketing staff of these 'aggregator' organizations have to support the demands of numerous suppliers and customers in their B2B trading environment. Collecting updated product data from suppliers for pricing and merchandising functions is a daily challenge. There is also the need to generate content, whether internally or through advertising agencies, for the purpose of advertising and promotion. On the marketing front, there is the need to customize product data for publishing internet catalogs, printed books, brochures, and B2B trading.

Within the complex IT landscape of a large distributor, product data is often scattered across multiple databases and disparate systems (ERP, CRM, POS, WMS, data warehouses etc). Data integrity and data synchronization is a major operational challenge for IT staff.

iICE Enterprise Edition is designed for these organizations whose sheer volume of products, suppliers and customers demand advance functionality for managing the data that is used across different processes such as merchandising, procurement, forecasting and planning.