Product catalogue management refers to the support of product management

Product management

Product management is an organizational lifecycle function within a company dealing with the planning, forecasting, or marketing of a product or products at all stages of the product lifecycle....

 in the management of product information in a structured and consistent way in the form of electronic catalogs. This in essential in order to create and develop cost-effective means to help customers and channel partners understand what the functionalities and usability of certain products or services are. This includes comparison of product features, advice related products and alternative products and services. Product catalogue information is typically used in websites, mail order catalogues, webshops, Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

 systems, price comparison services, and manufacturer websites.