Make catalog spend easier to manage.
Browse current products, stock and pricing directly from suppliers like Amazon Business, Staples and CDW, without maintaining separate catalogs yourself.
Make your agreed rates available at the point of purchase, so employees buy on the terms procurement has already secured.
Completed carts return directly into Vertice with the relevant purchase details already captured, removing manual re-entry and making requests ready to review.
Route each request through the right workflow before anything is purchased, so the right people can review spend at the right time.
The need-to-knows about Vertice
A punchout catalog connects a procurement platform directly to a supplier’s online store. Employees access the supplier through Vertice, browse its catalog and build a cart as normal. The completed cart then returns to Vertice as a purchase request for review and approval.
Employees open a connected supplier from Vertice and shop on the supplier’s own site, where they can see current products, availability and pricing. Once the cart is complete, the details are automatically brought back into Vertice and routed through the right approval process before the order is placed.
Rather than treating risk as a post-purchase step, Vertice uses vendor due diligence software capabilities that are native to the procurement workflow. This includes continuous monitoring and AI-driven risk scoring for all potential suppliers. By automating in-line security, legal and compliance checks during the intake phase, Vertice ensures that vendor discovery and supplier evaluation are conducted with risk intelligence embedded at key decision points, preventing high-risk contracts from proceeding unnoticed.
Punchout makes it easier to manage purchases from suppliers with large or frequently changing product ranges. Employees get a familiar buying experience with up-to-date product information, while procurement avoids maintaining catalogs or manually recreating requests. Negotiated pricing and approval processes stay in place throughout.
A hosted catalog stores a supplier’s product and pricing information inside the procurement platform, which means it needs to be maintained as the supplier’s range changes.
A punchout catalog connects directly to the supplier’s own site instead. Employees see the latest products, availability and pricing at source, while the completed cart still returns to the procurement platform for approval.
Vertice supports punchout purchasing with suppliers including Amazon Business, Staples and CDW, giving employees direct access to the catalogs they already use through Vertice.
Punchout makes the approved buying process easier to follow. Employees can purchase from familiar suppliers without going around procurement, while each cart still comes back into Vertice for review and approval. This helps keep more spend with approved suppliers and within your purchasing policies.
Punchout catalogs are best suited to frequent purchases from suppliers with large or changing product ranges, such as IT hardware, office supplies and equipment.
For software, services and other indirect spend that require sourcing, negotiation or additional review, Vertice supports these through its wider procurement workflows.