Mapping UNSPSC based Categories to Item Categories

Summary

How to map and display UNSPSC from Supplier Punchout to a Category on a Purchase Requisition?

Content

My colleague has put together this article that discusses how UNSPSC Codes are used in Self Service Procurement. Several posts relating to this topic have emerged in the past few months and the idea behind the article was to provide readers including support an idea of what this feature is and how it can be leveraged by a buying organization in the context of Self Service Procurement.

Content:

UNSPSC is an international classification standard for items used by many organizations. In situations where a supplier organization chooses this coding structure, while in a buyer’s organization a different standard or category hierarchy is used, then there may be a need to map supplier punchout items to those categories.