Configuring the Supplier Portal home page

You configure the content of the Supplier Portal home page on Supplier Group form.

Note: 

A supplier's access to the menus and features in Supplier Portal is controlled by security.

For more information, see About security classes and roles in Supplier Portal and Supplier Order Management.

This procedure assumes your Supplier Group already exists. If you don't have a Supplier Group set up, see Creating a supplier group.

Configure the Supplier Portal

  1. Access Administration > Supplier Groups.
  2. Select your supplier group and open it (or from the Actions Menu, select Update).
  3. On the Update Supplier Group form, select the Portal Configuration tab.
    Require Supplier to Login In Order To View Events

    This field defaults to No. If you set it to Yes (select it), when a supplier first brings up Supplier Portal without logging in, the menu options called Browse Open Events and Search Events are not available. The user would have to log in to see these menu options.

    Note: 

    Suppliers who choose Contact Us or Forgot User Name? from the main form will see an Events menu option at the top of the screen, but if they select anything from that option, no events will display.

    Announcements

    Type the text that displays to all suppliers in the Announcements area of the home page. You can apply formatting to Announcements text, such as bold and colors.

    Inactivation Text

    Type the text that displays when a supplier attempts to login when either the supplier or supplier contact has been inactivated.

    Invoice Creation Text

    You can change the text that displays when a supplier creates an invoice from a purchase order.

    For more information, see Supplier created invoices from purchase orders.

  4. Select the Portal Links tab.

    Define links to Web sites or internal files you want to appear in the Links area of the home page. If a link is active, it displays to all suppliers who are logged in to the portal. If you set Display to Anonymous User to Yes, the links will also display when suppliers who are not logged in but are looking at the Supplier Portal (as long as the link is also active).

    If you create a link to a Web site, make sure the URL includes the http:// portion of the address.

    If you create an internal link, add the file name in the Link field. The document or file must reside in the following location:

    Windows: %LASRCDIR%\dataarea\modules\ss\webapps\SourcingSupplier\src\lawson\documents\

    UNIX: $LASRCDIR/dataarea/modules/ss/webapps/SourcingSupplier/src/lawson/documents/

  5. Select the Portal Contacts tab.

    Add contacts to display when the supplier clicks the Contact Us link in the upper right of the home page (also available when within a menu item). A phone number and e-mail address with a link to send an e-mail also displays.

    Contacts must already exist (Setup > Contacts).

  6. From the Actions menu, select Save.