Associate Trading Partners with Suppliers and Customers
The way you associate trading partners with the entity it represents (such as a customer, customer account, or supplier site) depends on these factors:
- The business process.
- Whether the relationship is with a supplier or a customer.
- The business documents you want to exchange.
When you're defining the association between trading partners and suppliers:
Business Process |
Where You Set It Up |
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Procure to pay |
In the Procurement work area, click Suppliers. You can also associate trading partners and suppliers using the Manage Supplier B2B Configuration task in the Collaboration Messaging work area. |
Supplier Collaboration |
In the Collaboration Messaging work area, click Manage Supplier B2B Configuration in the Tasks panel. |
When you're defining the association between trading partners and customers:
Business Process |
Where You Set It Up |
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Order to cash, ordering and shipping at the customer level |
In the Collaboration Messaging work area, click Manage Customer Collaboration Configuration in the Tasks panel. |
Order to cash, invoicing at the customer account level |
In the Collaboration Messaging work area, click Manage Customer Account Collaboration Configuration in the Tasks panel. |
Customer collaboration |
In the Collaboration Messaging work area, click Manage Customer Collaboration Configuration in the Tasks panel. |