Most catalogues assume one product, one price. Industrial distribution does not work that way, and neither does this one.
A fastener in twelve diameters is twelve things to sell, each with its own stock position and lead time. A buyer browses the parent and orders a variant, and the parent itself is never orderable — it has no stock and only a derived price, so it cannot reach an order by accident.
A kit ships as one priced line with a bill of materials underneath, so the warehouse knows what to pick without the buyer being billed for the components twice. A configurable build is a set of decisions — pick a motor, pick a housing — each with a price difference against the base, and an incomplete configuration cannot reach a cart at all.
When a line is discontinued or out of stock, the substitute shown is the one your catalogue team chose, not one an algorithm guessed. Substitutes, upgrades, accessories and spare parts are curated relationships, and an unpublished product never appears as a suggestion.
Negotiated rates live in contract price lists that apply automatically when that customer shops. There is no parallel quoting process to keep in sync, and no chance of a buyer seeing list price when they have a contract.
Controls that live in the database, so they apply whether the order came from the app, an integration, or someone in a hurry.
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