Associate Suppliers with Trading Partners for Procure-to-Pay

You can define the association between suppliers and trading partners for the procure-to-pay business process using two areas:

Manage Supplier B2B Configuration task in the Collaboration Messaging work area.
Procurement Procurement > Suppliers work area.

If Streamline B2B Document Sharing with Intelligent Oracle Business Network Connectivity is enabled, suppliers are associated with Oracle Business Network trading partners as outlined here, otherwise follow the steps when Streamline B2B Document Sharing with Intelligent Oracle Business Network Connectivity is not enabled.

Take these steps to associate suppliers and trading partners for the procure-to-pay process when Streamline B2B Document Sharing with Intelligent Oracle Business Network Connectivity is enabled.

In the Suppliers work area, click Manage Suppliers from the Tasks panel.
On the Manage Suppliers page, search for a supplier.
From the Search Results section, select your supplier and click Actions > Edit. The Edit Supplier page is displayed.
Click the Sites tab and select the site.
On the Edit Site page, scroll down and click the General tab if it's not already selected.
In the Enable B2B Messaging field, select Yes.

The Service Provider, Trading Partner, and Partner ID fields along with the document set up are populated after retrieving the information from Oracle Business Network. You can specify the trading partner qualifier used for domain-value map lookup in the Domain Value Map field and the application partner code in the Application Partner Code field if this field is used by your organization. If more than one trading partner and service provider are used, the information displayed in this section is for the trading partner and service provider associated with the document in the first row. The Documents section is populated based on the messages that the supplier supports on Oracle Business Network and what is set up in Collaboration Messaging for the Oracle Business Network service provider.
By default, the name, status, and status date of the document is displayed in the Documents section. You can change the message status by selecting a new status from the Status field drop-down list.
To modify the documents set up for a supplier, click Select B2B Documents in the Documents section.
- In the Search and Select B2B Documents window, search for a trading partner. The Trading Partners section for the search criteria is populated.
- Select a trading partner and choose the documents to associate with the supplier. If you are associating more than one trading partner and service provider with the supplier, you can unhide these additional columns in the Documents section.
- Click OK.
  
  Note: Use Collaboration Messaging Framework to add additional recipients for a document or to edit information of associated trading partners.
Click Save.

Take these steps for associating suppliers and trading partners for the procure-to-pay process when Streamline B2B Document Sharing with Intelligent Oracle Business Network Connectivity is not enabled.

In the Suppliers work area, click Manage Suppliers from the Tasks panel. The Manage Suppliers page is displayed.
On the Manage Suppliers page, search for a supplier.
From the Search Results section, select your supplier and click Actions > Edit. The Edit Supplier page is displayed.
Click the Sites tab. Then click the site.
On the Edit Site page, scroll down and click the General tab if it's not already selected.
In the Enable B2B Messaging field, select Yes.

The Associated Collaboration Documents section is displayed. In this section, you see all the associated service providers or trading partners and the documents set up for each of them. You also see the association status, and whether it's active or not.
Click the Edit button in the Associated Collaboration Documents section.

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 with a trading partner that you will exchange B2B messages with and then you use the Document Setup tab to define the documents exchanged with each trading partner.
On the Trading Partner Assignment tab, select Actions to add a row. Use the drop-down list on the site field to search for and select a Site and Procurement Business Unit.
Use the search option available from the Trading Partner ID field to search for and select a trading partner. On the search dialog the following fields are populated.
- The Service Provider will default to the Default Service Provider defined in Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration task.
- The Trading Partner ID and ID Type fields will be populated based on the selected Supplier.
- The Trading Partner OBN ID and Trading Partner Name fields 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 search results, a connection request will be made to Oracle Business Network for that trading partner and the trading partner will be added to Collaboration Messaging Framework if it doesn't already exist.

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.

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.
Click Save.

Here's 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 is 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.