Overview

Hello Readers, today's blogs will provide the Life Cycle of Supplier Management in PIM. You will came to know how and what is the Cycle that helps in Managing the Supplier in any Organization.

If we considered any Organizations then we can assume following Workflow to be Implementing In PIM.

• Creating the Supplier Profile
• Updating of Supplier Profile
• Deleting the Supplier Profile

Supplier Profile

Supplier can be registered using the Supplier Portal by filling the Supplier Application. After a respective Supplier gets approved , then Supplier Application form will gets converted to Supplier Profile. Now this profiles can be managed by Administrator of Organization. Under a Supplier Portal, Administrator will gets a summarized information of that Supplier. Form the Dashboard, Administrator can review the Messages , notifications , and monitor the Performance of the Respective Supplier under the Portal.

Storage for Supplier Documents

When the Supplier fill the Supplier Application form then as per the Organization requirement, a suppliers use to add the Supportive documents so to prove their Authentication. So Administrator will look profile along with the Documents and then Approves. If Application is Approved then their Documents will be stored into the ORS table in Oracle Database. The ORS tables stores the documents in the form of BLOBS. And the Status of ORS table will get Set to PENDING.

Supplier 360

Supplier 360 execute in IDD Application ie Informatica Data Directory that helps in managing the Supplier Information. Administrator with the helps of Supplier 360 can get all the relevant information of Supplier. From Dashboard of IDD Administrator can

• Edit the supplier profile,
• Change the status of supplier,
• Approve the supplier registrations,
• Monitor the performance of supplier and many more.

Online Supplier Application Form

This is usually be helpful when the Supplier themselves wants to gets Registered into the Organization. For that Supplier fill out the form using the Supplier Portal. After Submitting the form , MDM Dub console will store the Information in the ORS table. After that Administrator will gets Notifications about the Same to Approve or Reject the Application Submitted by Supplier. As per the considerations that will gets Approved and the Respective Application will become a part of Supplier Profile. And State of Profile records will gets changes form Pending to Active State.

Supplier Profile Maintenance

With the help of Supplier Portals Supplier can

• Manage their Profile themselves that further need to be Approved by the Administrator.
• Add the Respective Contacts
• Receives the Notifications about the Status of Approvals
• Upload the Catalog into PIM System
• Can keep the latest Products data into the Organization.

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