Common questions.
Punch-out on its own just connects you to a storefront. Guided Buying adds the Context Engine on top: it routes the requestor to the right catalog, recommends the supplier you've already approved, and runs the basket through your approval chain before it reaches the supplier.
Yes. With the hosted catalog, your team or a supplier sends a file, you upload it to Omnea, and it shows retail-style for employees to browse and add to a basket. That's how centrally-bought stock or internally-supplied items, like a batch of laptops IT already holds, get requested through the same front door. For external storefronts like Amazon Business, CDW or Staples, you connect a punch-out instead.
Yes. Add custom supplier entries to the product catalog and group them however makes sense. For requests that don't fit a catalog, Omnea puts the requestor in touch with the relationship owner or grants direct access.
That's the spend Guided Buying is built to catch. By making the in-policy route the easiest one, requestors buy through Omnea instead of reaching for a card, so hardware and tail spend get captured at the point of purchase.
Omnea connects to your ERP and identity systems so orders and approvals flow into the systems you already run. Guided Buying works inside the wider Omnea platform, so the spend sits with everything else you manage about that supplier.
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