Locating Other Partners and Adds Them to this Project (Initiating Partner)

The partner company that created the project realizes that it needs the help of a partner that specializes in hardware to work on this project.

The partner can locate appropriate partners and add them to the project in two different ways:

• Use the Partner Locator to find partners with relevant skills, and create a collaboration with those partners, as described in About Partner Collaboration.

• Use the Partner Locator to find partners with relevant skills, and have the brand owner add them to the project team.

When they use the Partner Locator, partners can find appropriate companies by searching based on expertise, location, and other criteria. In this situation, the partner would enter a criterion such as Partner Type = Hardware.

After the initiating partner has found the appropriate partner to work with, the two partners can initiate a collaboration. Assuming the hardware partner accepts the collaboration, the initiating partner can add the hardware partner to the project team.

Alternatively, they can request the brand owner to add the hardware partner to the project team using the All Projects Across Organizations view in Siebel PRM Manager.

To use the Partner Locator

1. In the Siebel PRM Portal, the partner navigates to the Partner Locator screen.

2. The partner enters the appropriate search criteria, and clicks Search.

   A list of partners who match the criteria appears.