What is the workflow for CMS enabled buyers?

1. An Ariba Customer Support representative enables this feature for your site.
2. A catalog manager creates validation, enrichment, and cleansing rules depending on the requirement from the Catalog Content Manager workspace.
3. The catalog manager imports a catalog manually from the Catalog Manager workspace.
4. The catalog content is then pushed to the content management system for cleansing, validation and enrichment.

The catalog content is processed in the following sequence:

• Parsing: Syntax checks are applied to verify that all required content is in the correct format.
• Cleansing: Catalog data that does not pass the defined cleansing rules is deleted.
• Validation: Catalog data is validated based on the defined validation rules.
• Enrichment: Catalog data is enriched based on the defined enrichment rules.

Catalog manager can view the status of the imported catalog in the Contents task in the Catalog Content Manager workspace.
Catalogs that pass validation move to the Completed status while catalogs that fail validation move to the Validation Failed status.

If the catalog has the option Activate Automatically set to No, you should do the following:

1. Go to Catalog Content Manager > Content Documents.
2. Search for the catalog.
3. In the right side, hit Actions > Notify Valid Items.

After this steps, the catalog will be pushed to Catalog Manager.

The catalog manager can view the summary of the imported catalogs and edit the content of catalogs that failed validation.

Catalog manager can edit the error field values and revalidate the catalog content.

Catalogs that passed validation and moved to the Completed status are then pushed to the Catalog Manager workspace for further validation, approval and activation.

For more information about creating catalog content rules, please check this article.

Catalog Management > Content Management System