Create a Collaboration Relationship

On the Manage Supply Collaboration Network page, you can create a collaboration relationship between trading partners.

Note: On the Manage Supply Collaboration Network page, you can't create collaboration relationships sourced from an external source system.

To create a collaboration relationship:

1. In the Supply Chain Collaboration work area, click Manage Supply Collaboration Network in the Tasks panel.

2. On the Manage Supply Collaboration Network page, click Actions > Create.

3. On the Create Relationship dialog box, select the values for Ship-from Supplier Site and Ship-to Organization.

   The fields relevant to the ship-from supplier and ship-to organization are populated.

   To define a drop ship relationship, select a ship-to organization where the ship-from supplier site and ship-to supplier site are the same.

4. Select the item the trading partners can supply from the site.

   You can see only the items associated with the selected organization listed. The item must be associated to the ship-to organization in the Product Information Management work area before it can be selected in the Supply Chain Collaboration work area.

5. Enter the effective start date and effective end date. The effective dates determine when a relationship is active.

   If you don't enter a start date, the relationship is treated as active from the current date until the end date. If you don't enter an end date, the relationship is treated as active from the start date.

   You can create only one relationship for a combination of a ship-from supplier site, ship-to organization, and an item with the same effective date range.

6. Click Save and Continue to save the new relationship.

7. On the Edit Relationship page, enter values for these fields:

   • Forecast Horizon in Days: The duration Supply Chain Collaboration must provide forecast data to the supplier.

   • Commit Horizon in Days: The duration a supplier must provide commit data to Supply Chain Collaboration.

   • Commit SLA in Days: The number of days a supplier has to provide commits against a forecast. If the supplier doesn't provide commit an exception is thrown.

   Decomposition calculates all collaboration parameters configured with the Supply Chain Collaboration managed relationships. For example, if the Commit SLA is 2 days and the forecast is received on 5 Jan, 2017, the Commit Due Date will be 7 Jan, 2017. In addition to the schedule details, the latest commit due date is also stored. This is the due date used when calculating commit due dates.

8. Click Save and Close to save the new relationship.