Every procurement team knows the frustration. A punchout that breaks mid-session. A buyer who goes off-catalog because searching the system takes longer than sending an email. A catalog maintenance backlog that grows faster than anyone can clear it.
The catalog program was supposed to drive compliance, savings, and control. For most enterprises, it's quietly doing the opposite.
When the system is harder to use than the workaround, buyers will always find the workaround - and procurement ends up carrying the cost.
This is the full capabilities breakdown of MarketPlace, Axiom's managed catalog sourcing module built to replace fragmentation with intelligent, agentic flow.
Inside, you'll find:
- The Problem with Catalog Sourcing - why fragmented catalogs, poor buyer experience, and high maintenance burdens persist, and what they're really costing you
- How It Works - the full buying journey from search to settlement, including both the manual route and the Axi Procurement Agent route, basket optimisation, ERP routing, and spend visibility
- Key Features of MarketPlace - including Axi-powered universal search, multi-supplier basket, contract-aware pricing, built-in compliance controls, the Supplier Hub, and in-platform procurement analytics
- MarketPlace Benefits - from higher adoption rates and up to 90% process automation, to real-time spend visibility, improved supplier engagement, and procurement freed for strategic work
- The Commercial Model - a scalable, supplier-based fee structure that rewards adoption and grows with your organisation, not against it
- MarketPlace vs Legacy Catalog Solutions - a direct comparison across buyer experience, catalog architecture, AI capability, ERP integration, adoption rates, and more
- Where MarketPlace Sits in the Axiom Ecosystem - one platform, fully integrated across MarketSource, MarketMaterials, and MarketPay
- Future Evolution - the network effect, the Axi AI expansion roadmap, and why this is not a platform migration but a strategic re-architecture of how enterprise buying works
It's a thorough read, but a rewarding one - and by the end of it, you'll understand exactly why 75% of procurement practitioners surveyed are already looking to replace their existing catalog solution.