Supplier Portal Integration

The Fusion Supplier Portal enables a buying company (wholesaler/distributor) to negotiate and communicate channel agreements with their suppliers.

As a supplier contact on the Supplier Portal, you can create, submit, and view your channel programs and interact with your sales channel partner. It leverages the Portal’s existing security model, allowing supplier contact access to supplier programs based on their data access at supplier and supplier site levels. This integration helps you to:

• Invite suppliers to securely create and offer programs directly from the Supplier Portal.
• Centralize the definition of supplier incentives.
• Reduce and share administrative load of managing programs.

Suppliers create their program in a draft status, which is then reviewed and approved by the supplier channel manager prior to program activation. For wholesalers and distributors this self service capability reduces and shares the administrative load of manage programs with their suppliers.

Actions Required for Manage Supplier Programs

The Managing supplier programs through the supplier portal is delivered disabled. The following actions must be taken to use this feature.

• The enablement for the supplier portal integration requires the enablement of Supplier Channel Management, which involves the following opt ins:
  1. Opt in to the Supplier Incentives functional area under the Procurement offering.
  2. Then opt in to the Supplier Channel Management feature.

After you opt in, perform the following tasks:

1. Provision access to Supplier Portal for the supplier and their contacts.
2. Configure applicable Program Types.
3. Specify the Default Program Owner in the Supplier Trade Profile.
4. Configure supplier items using the Trading Partner Item page in the Product Information Management work area.

Access for Manage Supplier Programs

• Access to this feature is through the shipped job role Supplier Sales Representative.
• Access to this feature is through shipped privileges:
  • Manage Supplier Programs in Supplier Portal
  • View Supplier Programs in Supplier Portal
• The Manage Channel Programs (from Supplier Portal) business processes is affected by this feature.

You can additionally capture notes in a claim and capture attachments in a claim. This capability helps to justify the resolution taken during approval and audit.

Notes and attachments for supplier claims are delivered disabled. Actions must be taken to use this feature.

• Access to this feature is through the Supplier Channel Manager job role.
• Access to this feature is through any role with the Manage Supplier Claims privilege.
• The Manage Channel Programs business processes is affected by this feature.