Intermediary Setup

When conducting a RoundTrip with an intermediary, it is possible that an item will be returned in the shopping cart from a supplier that is not registered with the procurement application.

Note: The term intermediary is used to describe a category of RoundTrip supplier that returns shopping carts with items from a variety of suppliers. Two examples of intermediaries are the Commerce One Auction application and Commerce One Content Engine application.

In this case, if the user has the On Demand supplier registration privilege, an attempt is made to acquire default supplier information from the marketplace trading partner directory and register that supplier at the procurement application. Because the Trading Partner Directory (TPD) does not have the complete set of information required for supplier registration, some information must be defaulted. These defaults are found in the database table, Supplier_Default. This information must be configured in each enterprise database for each Buying organization (by ID) that wishes to use the On Demand Supplier Registration feature.

To do this you must use your database configuration tools and edit the table. The table cannot be accessed in the Advanced Administration application.

The following fields on this table are required (with the default value provided):

BorgID	Your Buying Organization ID
RecipientID	null
Minority	0
SmallBusiness	0
ContactID	0
ShipMethodID	0
DispatchName	MarketSite
DispatchDescription	MS
DispatchTypeID	1
PriorityLevel	0
Priority	1
PaymentTermsID	0
PaymentTypeID	1

These fall into the following categories:

Category	Fields	Notes
Authorizing organization	RecipientID	New for this release, this field stores the Buying Organization ID of the authorizing organization for the new supplier account.
General information	Minority Small Business Ship Method ID	This data will be added in the Supplier Table Ship Method is an identity into ShipMethod Table.
Order dispatch	Name- Description Type- Priority Level	This data is added to the SupplierDispatch Table. Dispatch type is an identity into DispatchType table.
Payment	Type Terms Priority	This data is added to the SupplierPaymentType table. Type is an identity into the PaymentType table.- Terms is an identity into the PaymentTerms table.

Currently the table is shipped with default basic values for BORG 0 and BORG 1.

To configure a RoundTrip intermediary:

1. Add a New Supplier

If your supplier does not already exist, see New Supplier in the Administer Suppliers Help.

Be sure to set the Supplier Type to either Multiple Supplier Catalog or Auction which ever best describes the intermediary.

2. Specify Supplier Ship Method

See Supplier Ship Method

3. Create New Supplier Dispatch Information

See Supplier Dispatch

4. Add Supplier Payment Type

See Supplier Payment Type

5. Configure Supplier MarketSite Information

See Supplier MarketSite. MarketSite (A value is required for this field however it can be a dummy value as long as it is unique among the registered suppliers.)