The University of Missouri establishes contracts with different suppliers to provide specific items at discounted prices and makes many of these contracts available in the eProcurement Show Me Shop. Contracts, also referred to as catalogs, are classified as either Hosted or Punchout and are described below. With both types of catalogs, the price you see is what you pay for the item. A single Show Me Shop shopping cart can include multiple items from multiple catalog suppliers (hosted, or punchout, or a combination of items from both types of catalogs).
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A hosted catalog is an online version of the supplier's items included in the University contract. Hosted catalogs contain item descriptions, part numbers and pricing information. Some items even include images of the item with the click of a mouse. The shopping experience with hosted catalogs has a consistent look and feel regardless of the supplier you’re shopping with – searching is the same, carts look the same, and overall functionality is the same across suppliers.
When using the Show Me Shop search features, all hosted catalog items are searched, so retrieved results could include items from multiple suppliers. Item comparisons can be performed side-by-side between suppliers. Additionally, items in hosted catalogs can be saved as favorites in the Show Me Shop to be retrieved and ordered again later.
Prices in hosted catalogs are relatively stable. Suppliers submit price files to the University at different intervals when prices are updated, items are discontinued, new items are added, etc. (i.e. quarterly, annually)
A punchout catalog is an integrated external link to the supplier's web page created specifically for the University of Missouri. The items reflect University discounted prices; however, the items and pricing may change more frequently than a hosted catalog. A punchout catalog allows you to configure certain items (i.e. computers) with the features you want, while updating the University's discounted cost as changes are made.
The search features are supplier specific, so if you are familiar with a supplier's public website, the punchout catalog functions very much the same. The cart functionality, adding items, editing a cart, managing favorites, and returning the punchout cart to the Show Me Shop are unique to each punchout catalog supplier's site.
You are not able to compare prices among punchout suppliers or hosted catalogs, but many punchout catalog suppliers allow you to compare items within their own site.
When you complete your shopping with a punchout catalog supplier, you return the cart, which inserts the items into the Show Me Shop shopping cart that is ultimately returned to the PeopleSoft requisition being created.
