Associate Suppliers with Trading Partners

You must associate trading partners with suppliers that a trading partner represents.

You associate your suppliers with trading partners for the supplier collaboration business process (sending forecasts out and acknowledging forecast commits), or the procure-to-pay business process in the Collaboration Messaging work area. Take these steps:

1. In the Collaboration Messaging work area, click Manage Supplier B2B Configuration from the Tasks panel.

   On the Manage Supplier B2B Collaboration page you can search for suppliers by supplier name, or supplier number and optionally by D-U-N-S. The list of suppliers comes from the Oracle Fusion Procurement application.

   Note: If there's a check mark in Collaboration Configured field, there's at least one collaboration document already set up for the supplier.

2. Select the supplier you want to associate with a trading partner, and click Edit Collaboration Configuration. The Edit Supplier Collaboration Configuration page is displayed, with the supplier information displayed at the top of the page and two tabs, Trading Partner Assignment and Document Setup.

   First, you use the Trading Partner Assignment tab, to associate the supplier to a trading partner (s) that you will exchange B2B messages with and then you use the Document Setup tab to define the documents exchanged with each trading partner.

3. On the Trading Partner Assignment tab, select Actions to add a row. Use the drop-down list of the site field to search for and select a Site and Procurement Business Unit.

4. Use the search option available from the Trading Partner ID field to search for and select a trading partner. On the search dialog box, the following fields are populated.

   • The Service Provider will default to the Default Service Provider defined in Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration.

   • The Trading Partner ID and ID Type will be populated based on the selected Supplier.

   • Additional fields of Trading Partner OBN ID and Trading Partner Name will be displayed for searching when the selected service provider is Oracle Business Network.

   • If a trading partner is selected from the Oracle Business Network (OBN) search results and is not defined as a trading partner on the OBN network, a connection request will be made to OBN for that trading partner and the trading partner will be added to Collaboration Messaging Framework if it doesn't already exist.

5. Click Save and then define the list of documents that you want to exchange with your trading partners in the Document Setup tab.

   Here's more information on the fields in the Trading Partner Assignment tab.

   Field	Description
   Site	The supplier site to which the trading partner is being associated with. The site and Procurement BU are selected together from the search option on the Site field.
   Procurement BU	The Procurement Business Unit to which the trading partner is being associated with. The site and Procurement BU are selected together from the search option on the Site field.
   Trading Partner ID	The trading partner identifier.
   Partner ID Type	The type of ID for the trading partner; for example, Name, Tax ID, D-U-N-S.
   Service Provider	The service provider that's used by the trading partner, this is populated after the user selects a trading partner.
   Trading Partner OBN ID	The Oracle Business Network ID of the trading partner. This is the identifier on the trading partner on the Oracle Business Network.
   Sender Party ID	Sender ID identifies the trading partner sending the outbound message. This field allows the user to specify a sender party ID that will override the global ID defined during setup in the Setup and Maintenance work area.
   Sender ID Type	The type of ID for the sender; for example, Name, Tax ID, D-U-N-S.
   Application Partner Code	A code to identify the supplier site used in inbound message processing. If no value is provided and Retrieve Supplier Site from PO is enabled during configuration, the supplier site is retrieved from the associated purchase order.
   Domain Value Map	The trading partner qualifier used when setting up the domain values for the selected trading partner. It's used to identify the domain values for the trading partners. See Manage Domain Values Map for more information.
   Association Status	The date and time that the row was added.

6. Use the Document Setup tab to define the documents that you want to exchange with your trading partners for the selected Site and Procurement BU.

   • The document setup tab has two sections. In the upper table you define the documents that you want to exchange with your trading partners. Any trading partners listed in this table are the primary recipient of the selected document. The list of trading partners displayed in the upper table are those trading partners that have been defined on the Trading Partner Assignment tab and also are configured to exchange the selected document.

   • If there's more than one recipient for a document, select the row for that document in the upper table and then in lower table, add a row and select the trading partner that's the additional recipient of the document.

7. Click Save.

Here is some information on fields on this tab.

Field	Description
Override Configured	A check in this field indicates that the trading partner for the selected document is using a different message definition than the one the associated service provider is using for that document, for example, the trading partner has overridden the service provider's message definition.
Additional Recipients	A check in this field indicates that there are additional recipients for the document. If there's a check in this field for any of the documents, you can select that row and view the additional recipients in the Additional Recipients section.