You register your company as a prospective supplier in Oracle iSupplier Portal to let the buying company know that you are interested in establishing a business relationship. After you are registered, additional supplier users within your company can be registered to access and use Oracle iSupplier Portal. This enables you to communicate to a buying company real-time information about your procure-to-pay transactions.
Note: If you are already a supplier to the buying company and you can log into Oracle iSupplier Portal, then you and your company have already completed both of the registration tasks. You can skip chapter 2.
Note: If no one in your company can access Oracle iSupplier Portal, your company is not registered with the buying company, and you need to register your company before you register your supplier users.
Note: If other supplier users in your company can access Oracle iSupplier Portal (and you cannot), your company is registered, however, you need to register as a user for access to Oracle iSupplier Portal.
If you are a prospective supplier, you need to read the entire section and complete all of the registration steps. If your company is already registered with the buying company and you only need to add yourself as a user, you only need to read and complete the Registering Users task.
This section includes the following topics:
Self-service prospective vendor registration enables you to register your interest in establishing a business relationship with the buying company. Once registered, you can provide details about your company, its addresses, contacts, products and services, and banking and payment information.
To register, you need to provide your company name, tax identification details, and main company address. This information is verified against existing records to ensure that duplicate registration information is not recorded. You can also include additional detailed information to create a company profile. If the buying company wishes you to enter into a relationship with them, they may send you an invitation requesting you register with the system. This notification will contain a URL where you can go and access the Supplier Registration Page. If the buyer does not send you an invitation, you must obtain this URL from the buying company yourself. Either way, you enter details about your company using the Supplier Registration Page.
You must provide contact information so the system can send updates on the registration request. After completing the registration, you receive a confirmation that the request has been submitted for review. The information is reviewed by a buyer administrator, and if approved, you are notified of the decision by e-mail.
The buying company initiates the process of adding new supplier users by inviting supplier users to register, or by registering supplier users directly. If you receive an invitation to access Oracle iSupplier Portal, you can respond to the invitation (and provide user profile information, such as name and contact details), or forward the invitation to another user in your company. For example, the buying company may send an invitation to the Vice President of Sales within your organization; he can forward it to the appropriate person in his company. The user who responds can change any of the details except the name of the supplier company for whom he or she is registering.
If the buying company has multiple site definitions for your company, or if you have multiple subsidiaries, your buying company may give you access to view information for multiple site definitions.
If you wish to register with the system, you must complete the Supplier User Registration Page and submit it for approval
A buyer administrator will approve or reject the your registration request. You receive a notification of the buyer administrator's actions. The notification includes the URL at which you can access the network, plus any additional information such as the username and a system-generated password needed for initial login. (You will be prompted to change this password after first login.)
Buyers can designate a supplier user with user account from the Contact Directory to receive the business classification reminder notifications. To designate the supplier users expand the user account information node and select Certification Reminders check box in the User Notification region.
Directly Registered Supplier Users
If the buying company has enough information about a user at your company, the buyer can chose to register the user directly, in which case the users receives an e-mail notification with the URL, username, and system-generated password.
Supplier Registered Supplier Users
If additional people in your company need access to Oracle iSupplier Portal, they should contact the Supplier Profile and User Administrator at your company. This administrator can create new user accounts for your users. Once the account is created, the user will be sent a notification containing system access information.