Supplier profile

The supplier account setup includes all the components that maintain the company-wide information:

• Mandatory Components
  • Ship From Records

    During the Supplier Registration process, a Ship From record is created. An additional Ship From record must be created for each location from which shipments are sent.

    The Ship From record contains information about the shipping origin, including the address and default transit time to the customer destination (Ship To). The transit time can be generated automatically from information specified on the shipper when the shipper is created, but the default can be updated only in the Ship From record. The Ship From address is displayed on shippers and ASNs.

  • Profile Record Each supplier company has a single set of preferences that personalize Supplier Exchange for current business practices. The preferences set in the application include settings for purchase orders and shippers, that determine how the application is used throughout the company.
  • Security

    The application security contains individual user account information. Each user can have and maintain a personal account, but that account is controlled through the security component. Only the users with the administrator role can use the security component to add users or update existing accounts.

    If you are logged on as the administrator, you can create roles, restriction groups, and users. The roles and restriction groups ensure that users can access the components of the locations for which they are responsible. You assign each user an ID and password that can be used to log on to Supplier Exchange, a role, and optionally a restriction group.

• Optional Components
  • Demand - Ship From Associations

    Each supplier company must establish a default Ship From, or shipping origin, for each demand item. Demand is defined by the customer's demand key, which is at its core a facility, Ship To, and part number combination. You can either establish this information up front or as shippers are created.

    When you create a shipper from demand, only demand that is associated with the selected Ship From or that does not yet have an association can be added to the shipper. If you create a shipper for demand that does not have a default Ship From, the Ship From used for the shipper becomes the default. After being established, the default can be changed only through the Assign Ship Froms option.

  • Containers You can only specify and maintain container information if your customer maintains a list of accepted containers in Supplier Exchange. These are containers in which the customer usually receives shipments. You can add information to these files to keep the list consistent between you and your customer.
  • Parts As the customer publishes demand, the part information is saved in the database. You can also link the required part information to the customer part information and select default packaging (selected from the list of Containers, above). The default packaging is automatically applied to the part when you create a shipper. (You can edit the container information on the shipper if the default packages are not accurate for the shipment.)