Overview

Hello Readers, today's you will get in sight about how you (Admin) can handle the Supplier Catalog . As an Admin, User can Create , View or Manage the Catalog or Manage the Items it holds. Before Proceeding with this Managing Supplier Catalog. It is Assumed that you have Build the Supplier for which you want to Manage the Catalog. From the Admin Perspective, Supplier Catalog contains the following information

• Supplier Name
• Catalog Identifier
• Language chosen for Catalog (You can change if Required)
• Number of Items in this Catalog.
• Updates regarding the Catalog and its Reports which can be viewed directly by Clicking on View Report
• Status as Active or InActive that indicates whether Catalog is Visible to the Supplier or Not.

Creating Catalogs

If you (Admin) want to Crate new Catalog for the particular Supplier follow the following steps :

• Click on Start → Supplier Portal.
• Enter the Login Credentials of Admin.
• Click on View Suppliers to Open Supplier Overview window
• Get the Supplier from Supplier Overview
• In Action choose Open Supplier
• Supplier Details dialog box will Open
• Click on Creating New Catalog
• Provide the Name of Catalog that you want to create .
• After providing the details click OK.

Viewing and Editing Catalog Details

In order to View or manage the Catalog Details , you can proceed by using following steps :

• Click on Start → Supplier Portal.
• Enter the Login Credentials of Admin.
• Click on View Suppliers to Open Supplier Overview window
• Get the Supplier from Supplier Overview
• In Action choose Open Supplier
• Supplier Details dialog box will Open
• Navigate to Catalog Overview Section.
• List of Catalog will be displayed in an Sorted order.
• Select the Particular catalog of respective supplier..
• In action choose open catalog. This will get an view of catalog with the complete details.

Editing Items

If you make changes in the Items Details then you can Edits Items as per following Steps :

• Click on Start → Supplier Portal.
• Enter the Login Credentials of Admin.
• Click on View Suppliers to Open Supplier Overview window
• Get the Supplier from Supplier Overview
• In Action choose Open Supplier
• Supplier Details dialog box will Open
• Navigate to Catalog Overview Section.
• List of Catalog will be displayed in an Sorted order.
• Select the Particular catalog of respective supplier..
• In action Column choose Open Catalog.
• Catalog Details will be Visible.
• Move to Number of Items.
• Click on Edit .
• All the Items under the Catalog will get displayed.
• These can be changed. So make changes as per requirement.
• Click on Confirm.

Managing Status :

if you (Admin) wants that the Catalog that is Visible should not be Visible or Vice-Versa. Then you should follow the Following Steps :

• Click on Start → Supplier Portal.
• Enter the Login Credentials of Admin.
• Click on View Suppliers to Open Supplier Overview window
• Get the Supplier from Supplier Overview
• In Action choose Open Supplier
• Supplier Details dialog box will Open
• Navigate to Catalog Overview Section.
• List of Catalog will be displayed in an Sorted order.
• Select the Particular catalog of respective supplier..
• In action Column choose Open Catalog.
• Catalog Details will be Visible.
• Navigate to Status section visible exactly at the Top right of this Catalog Details.
• Click on Active. (Assume it was Active)
• It will change to Inactive.
• Now this Catalog will not be Visible to the Respective Supplier.
• If want make Inactive to Active. Follow the steps again from 1st heads of Managing status.

Viewing Reports of Test Run and Import

You can View the recent status and recent date of executing the Test Run and Import Operation. Status of these can hold any of the Following :

• Scheduled: This indicates that Import is scheduled not executed.
• Running: This indicates that it is still being progress
• Finished:This will indicates The Operation is Completed.
• Canceled :This will indicates that Operation is Canceled.

If No status is visible this means No operation is performed yet. In order to View the Reports follow the Following steps :

• Click on Start → Supplier Portal.
• Enter the Login Credentials of Admin.
• Click on View Suppliers to Open Supplier Overview window
• Get the Supplier from Supplier Overview
• In Action choose Open Supplier
• Supplier Details dialog box will Open
• Navigate to Catalog Overview Section.
• List of Catalog will be displayed in an Sorted order.
• Select the Particular catalog of respective supplier..
• In action Column choose Open Catalog.
• Catalog Details will be Visible.
• Navigate to Update History
• You can Click on View Reports for which you want to see the Reports.
• Reports with Errors Warning will be displayed in the New Window.

In this way, Admin can perform various Actions related with Supplier Catalog. I hope this will help you .

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