Setting up vendors for Supplier Access
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Select
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Open the vendor record, and then click Supplier
Access.
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Click Edit.
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Select Allow Supplier Access.
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In the Product ID Type field, select the
Product field value to send to the
supplier with a request. You must have previously established an association between
the Distribution SX.e Product number and these product ID types:
- Universal Product Code (UPC): Set up in
Product UPC Information Setup
- Buyers Part Number: Defaults to the product set up in
Product Setup
- Alternate Item Number: Set up in
- Manufacturer Part #: Set up in SA Table Code
Value SetupProduct
Extended Product Cross Reference Setup and Product Setup
- Vendor Part #: Set up in Product Warehouse
Product Setup
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Select HTTP or FTP to determine how
the request for product availability is transmitted to the vendor.
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If HTTP was selected , specify this information:
- URL: Specify the supplier's HTTP
system URL address.
- Password: Specify the supplier's
password needed to connect to that supplier's system. The password is stored as
plain text with no encryption/decryption.
- User ID: Specify the supplier's
user name needed to connect to that supplier's system.
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If FTP was selected , specify this information:
- IP Address: Specify the supplier's
FTP system TCP/IP address.
- Password: Specify the supplier's
password needed to connect to that supplier's system. The password is stored as
plain text with no encryption/decryption.
- User ID: Specify the supplier's
user name needed to connect electronically to that supplier's system.
- System Code: Specify the FTP System
Type Code, such as IBM or VMS, that controls the file name format for the FTP
operation.
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Click
Save.