Understanding Supplier Collaboration

Collaboration between buyers, suppliers, and the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne planning systems is essential for supporting e-fulfillment processes. The system provides self-service programs that enable both buyers and suppliers to review and modify supplier schedules. By accessing these programs using the supplier self-service portal and the buyer workspace, buyer and supplier can collaborate in real time. After you have created a supplier schedule, the supplier can view it using the portal and respond to it by entering commitments.

The collaborative process includes a set of alerts that makes managing supplier schedules by exception possible. Under certain conditions, for example, if a mismatch exists between planned and committed quantity, the system issues alerts to both buyer and supplier to enable them to respond to the issue. The system captures a history of schedules and commitments that provides a basis for exception and comparative alerts.

The portal also enables buyers not only to review and revise blanket and ad hoc schedules that are created by running the Supplier Schedule Generation program, but also to manually enter ad hoc schedules when necessary. You can use ad hoc schedules to meet unexpected demand or to cope with shortages.

To create ad hoc schedules, this information is required:

• Supplier

• Freeze fence

• Shipment dates