Register Supplier – A summary of the activity

A supplier supplies parts to an organization unit. This activity helps you to register suppliers. The registered supplier will be available across organization units that interact with the login organization unit, for supplying the required materials. After registering the supplier, you can enter related information for the supplier such as the certificate details and TCD details. You can also map parts to the supplier, which the supplier can supply to the organization.

Getting familiar with the pages inside

What you can do in this activity

Create Supplier

Define certification details for the supplier

Mapping parts to the supplier

Specify taxes, charges and discounts for a supplier

Add new parts to the supplier upon creation of purchase order or blanket purchase order

Manage additional options

Create Supplier

You can create and register a supplier with a unique code and make it available across organization units that interact with the login organization unit. Otherwise, if the company has a supplier registration department, you can register the supplier through this department and then map information specific to the organization units. You can also register a supplier during the creation of purchase order or blanket purchase order and then map the supplier to the organization unit for defining the supplier information.

• Use the “Register Supplier” page to create the supplier and map information specific to organization units.

Define certification details for the supplier

You can enter certification details such as the quality conformance certificate that the suppliers possess, certificate type and the issuing authority.

• Use the “Edit Certificate Details” page to enter the certificate details, which the supplier possesses.

Mapping parts to the supplier

You can map the parts that are already in the system to a supplier. A supplier can supply only those parts that are mapped to that supplier.

• Use the “Edit Supplier Part Mapping” page, to map the parts to the supplier.

Specify taxes, charges and discounts for a supplier

Taxes, Charges and Discounts (TCD) refer to various additional charges or discounts that you can add or subtract from the amount payable to the supplier. You can map the TCD details to the selected supplier. Once mapped, these TCD will be applicable to the supplier at the time of raising purchase orders.

• Use the “Edit Supplier TCD” page, to map the taxes, charges and discounts that are applicable to the selected supplier.

Add new parts to the supplier upon creation of purchase order or blanket purchase order

You can raise purchase order for a part against a supplier only if the part is already mapped to that supplier. However, you can also raise a purchase order for a part that is not mapped to the supplier by setting an option for the “Part not mapped to supplier” system parameter in the “Set Purchase Options” activity of the “Logistics Common Master” business component.

If you set the “Part not mapped to supplier” parameter to “Allow PO and map part to supplier”, the system allows you to raise an express purchase order for a part that is not mapped to the particular supplier. The system then maps the part to the supplier. If you set the systems parameter to “Allow PO and don’t map part to Supplier”, the system does allows you to raise an express purchase order for a part that is not mapped to that supplier but does not map it to the supplier at the end of the transaction.

Managing Additional options for suppliers

• Select the "Manage Additional Options" link at the bottom of the "Register Supplier" page.