Control Supplier Access
For suppliers you invite to a negotiation, you can control access at the line level. If you don't grant a supplier access to a line, the supplier contact can't see the line and therefore can't respond to that line.
You must grant a supplier access to at least one line.
Define Supplier Access
In this example, the category manager is defining an RFQ to negotiate with Vision's suppliers. Among the lines defined to the negotiation are the following two as shown. Due to past performance, the category manager wants to keep BWP Distributors, Inc. from quoting on line one and Office Supplier, Inc. from quoting on line two. The resulting access authorizations are shown in the following table.
The following table shows the supplier access restrictions defined by the category manager.
|
Line Number |
Office Supplies, Inc. |
BWP Distributors, Inc. |
M and H International |
|---|---|---|---|
|
office credenza 50 EA |
yes |
no |
yes |
|
printer paper 500 BOX |
no |
yes |
yes |
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After adding the three suppliers to the invitation list for the negotiation, the category manager highlights the row for Office Supplies, Inc. and then selects the Control Line Access option from the Actions menu.
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On the Suppliers: Control Line Access page, she deselects the check box for negotiation line two and then clicks Save and Close.
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When the Suppliers: Control Line Access page appears again, she uses the same procedure to restrict BWP Distributors Inc. from accessing negotiation line one. Note that the default is to allow M and H International to access both negotiation lines, so the category manager need not alter those access specifications.