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title: Vendor catalog items
description: The vendor catalog is a list of goods available from different vendors.
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product: Product Catalog
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# Vendor catalog items

The vendor catalog is a list of goods available from different vendors.

An accurate and complete vendor catalog can make it easier to keep items in stock at the best possible price.

You can link multiple vendor catalog items to a single [product catalog item](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-asset-management/product-catalog/c_ManagingProductCatalogItems.md), which allows you to track information about a single item at different vendors.

For example, for an iPhone 5 product catalog item, you can create separate vendor catalog items from Apple and from Amazon. Select the vendor with the best price when you [source](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-asset-management/procurement/c_SourcingRequestItems.md) an item. Users need the model\_manager role to work with vendor catalog items.

-   **[Synchronize information](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-asset-management/product-catalog/c_SynchronizeInformation.md)**  
Certain information is synchronized between models, product catalog items, and vendor catalog items.
-   **[Create a vendor catalog item](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-asset-management/product-catalog/t_CreateAVendorCatalogItem.md)**  
Create a vendor catalog item to associate product models with a vendor.
-   **[View a vendor list](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-asset-management/product-catalog/t_ViewAVendorList.md)**  
You can view a list of vendors from the product catalog.

**Parent Topic:**[Product Catalog](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-asset-management/product-catalog/c_ProductCatalog.md)

**Related topics**  


[Components installed with Product Catalog]()

[Models]()

[Product catalog items]()

[Model categories]()

[Domain separation and Product Catalog]()