Supplier agreements are purchase agreements you have made with the buying company. On the Supplier Agreements page, you can review the details of those agreements, and the corresponding releases (orders) that have been created for a particular agreement.
To view agreements, click the Orders tab, and then Agreements in the task bar directly below the tabs. Use the search criteria to get a summarized list of agreements. For each agreement, you can select to view the releases created to date for that agreement. You can export details from any page.
Blanket Purchase Agreements
External descriptors that are associated to the Job - Purchasing Category - Shopping Category combination are displayed along with the job/item related details. You can see the external descriptors in the line details page. Internal descriptors are not seen by suppliers at all, they are visible to buyers only. Suppliers cannot access, download, or edit internal descriptors. Descriptors are external by default, unless they are defined as Internal.
The Linked Attributes column in the PO Details region has a Linked Attributes hyperlink. If you click the hyperlink, a popup displays, showing you the attributes associated to the Job - Purchasing Category - Shopping Category combination.
Editing Agreements
Buying organizations can provide suppliers with the ability to author their own content online, either via bulk file upload or on-line authoring. The industry standard formats supported in the upload mode include OAG XML, cXML, CIF and text file. Suppliers can upload and modify their catalog and buyers only need to approve the upload or change requests. Content provided by the supplier is subject to the buyer's approval before it is made available to the requesters.
To edit catalog information:
Access the blanket purchase agreement.
On the Blanket Purchase Agreement page, click the purchase number link in the header.
On the View Order Details page, select Edit Agreement from the Actions menu, then the Go button, you will be brought to the catalog authoring page and start creating or modifying a catalog.
After you submit the change, the buyer will receive a notification. The buyer can now approve the change through a notification or through the pending change page.
Downloading Blanket Agreement Lines
You can download agreement lines along with base and user defined descriptors in the format expected by Upload Catalog process. Use the following steps:
As a buyer, create a Global Blanket Purchase Agreement and enable Supplier Authoring in the agreement.
Login as supplier and search for the agreement.
Click the Edit Agreement icon in the search results.
Click Download Lines, this will run a concurrent program and the concurrent request ID shows in the page.
Click the View Requests link, the request details will show. Click View Output, and save the output file.
Note: Internal Descriptors cannot be downloaded. When suppliers upload agreement lines, the internal descriptors are unaffected by suppliers.