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You have reached agreement with a supplier of medical supplies on pricing for often used items. A supplier catalog is created for these items and this catalog is linked to a new supplier contract.
What can be done to ease regular pricing updates for items in this catalog?
When pricing for catalog items linked to a supplier contract changes regularly, manually updating those prices within Workday can create administrative burden and lag between actual market changes and system pricing. The Official Workday Pro Procure-to-Pay Guide describes the supplier portal as a tool that, once a Workday account is established for a supplier contact, allows the supplier itself to directly maintain and update catalog pricing for items linked to their contract, placing the responsibility for timely updates with the party that has the most current pricing information. Option A is incorrect because Workday does not provide a delivered, automated integration that synchronizes purchase item prices directly with arbitrary supplier systems as a standard configuration. Option B is incorrect because maintaining pricing outside the contract and routing updates through a business process adds manual steps and delay rather than easing the update process. Option D is incorrect because adding more review or approval steps to the Catalog Load business process increases administrative overhead and would make regular pricing updates slower, not easier.