Product Information Manager : Suppliers
Access
To get access to the supplier editor, click
-
> Setup -
>
Suppliers (in the
Customer/Supplier section).
Contents
Overview
A supplier is a person or enterprise who is a manufacturer, processor or packager of a controlled product, a service provider or who, in the course of business, imports or sells controlled products.
See the Basic Actions page for more info on standard actions (search, sort, edit, delete etc.).
Click the
icon to see
the reference information regarding the selected attribute.
Create Supplier
Click
to
create new suppliers. When the supplier editor opens, enter or click
as
required and the drop-down menus to search and select data wherever applicable.
General Tab
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Supplier ID can contain only alphanumeric characters (letters A-Z, numbers 0-9), hyphens ( - ) and underscores ( _ ). |
Fill in the relevant details and click
to save
supplier details after editing,
for a new supplier or
to
return to the search page.
After confirming creation, other tabs of the editor namely - Addresses, Contacts, Catalogs and Contracts - are available.
Addresses Tab
Click the Addresses tab to search or add address associations for the newly created supplier.
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Addresses can be managed in
PIM
Address Editor (
-
>
Setup -
>
Customer/Supplier -
>
Addresses).
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Use the icons in Actions column to execute the following:
Click
to create a new address.
Enter new
Address, this field is mandatory. Enter or select the other fields as required, on completion, click
to
save and create a new address association,
to save or
to
close the window.
Click
to search
and add new address association to the list.
Select with
and
click
to add new
address association to the list.
Click
to
remove the selected address association from the list.
Click
to edit
selected address association.
By selecting the corresponding
in "Is Default" column you can set the chosen address as a default one.
Click
to
save, click
to save and create a new address, click
to
cancel.
Contacts Tab
Click the Contacts tab to search/edit/delete contact associations for the newly created supplier.
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Contacts can be managed in
PIM
Contacts Editor (
-
>
Setup -
>
Customer/Supplier -
>
Contacts).
|
Click
to search
and add new contact association.
Select with
and
click
to add new
contact associations.
The newly added contact association will be listed in the contact association table.
Click
to edit
the selected contact.
Click
to
delete the selected contact association.
Click
to save the
changes.
Catalogs Tab
Click the Catalogs tab to search or add catalog provisioning for the newly created supplier.
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Catalogs can be managed in
PIM Catalogs Editor (
-> Setup -> Catalogs and
Contracts ->
Catalogs).
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Click
to
create catalog provisioning association entry for the supplier.
Enter new
Supplier,
Catalog and select
Status from the drop-down list. On completion, click
to
save and create a new catalog association,
to save or
to
discard changes and close the window.
The newly added catalogs will be listed in the catalog provisioning table.
Click
to
refresh the page.
Click
or
in the
table to edit or delete a catalog provisioning entry.
Contracts Tab
To add supplier contract usage, click the Contracts tab. This section is used to define the contracts the supplier has access to and use.
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Contracts can be managed in
PIM
Contract Editor (
-> Setup -> Catalogs and
Contracts ->
Contracts).
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Click
to
create contract provisioning entry for the supplier.
Enter new
Supplier,
Contract and select
Status from the drop-down list of options. Fill in other fields if required. On completion, click
to save and create a new address association,
to save
changes or
to
discard changes and close the window.
The newly added contract will be listed in the contract provisioning table.
Click
to
refresh page.
Click
or
to
edit or delete a contract provisioning entry.
Revisions
To get the list of supplier revisions select the
option from the
drop-down menu on the Search Result Page or click the
button on the
Edit Supplier page.
Click
to see revision details:
