In the Administer Suppliers Help

To administer suppliers, go to the Advanced Administration Application Tree Menu, and click:

• The Expand icon beside Suppliers to expand the menu and display a list of available actions and existing Suppliers.
• An Existing Supplier by name, to edit its information and account:
• New Supplier to add a new Supplier to the system and enter basic information.

To assist with regularly accessed Suppliers may also perform these actions:

• Add to Menu, to add a regularly accessed Supplier's name to the Tree Menu.
• Remove from Menu, to remove a Supplier's name from the Tree Menu when it is no longer needed.

You may also use this menu to Configure Settlement at the Supplier level, if you are using the Reconciliation and Settlement applications.

There are many dependencies between data values, therefore, you must configure this data in the following order:

1. Create or edit your suppliers
2. Configure dispatch methods for suppliers
3. Configure supplier account information
4. Add or modify price catalogs for supplier accounts

There are other administration tasks that you perform for suppliers. The order in which you perform these tasks does not depend upon other supplier configuration:

• Configure payment types that a supplier accepts
• Configure supplier ship methods
• Configure MarketSite information for a supplier, see Supplier MarketSite.
• Configure   information for a supplier, see Supplier RoundTrip.

To create a new supplier:

1. In the tree menu, select Suppliers | New Supplier.
2. Enter supplier information into the appropriate fields:

Field	Description
Supplier Name	Name of the supplier.
Address	An address which is already in Administration. For more information, see Setup Addresses.
Ship Method	Default method by which supplier sends products.
Description	Additional supplier information.
Contact	Contact information which is already in Administration. For more information, see Setup Contacts.
Minority	Specifies that the supplier is a minority business.
Small Business	Specifies that the supplier is a small business.
Supplier Type	Drop-down box which specifies the values of Single Supplier Catalog, Multiple Supplier Catalog, or Auction Supplier.
Supports Change Requests	Specifies that the supplier accepts Order Change Requests from the buyer.

3. Click Save.