Process: Create buyer organization

 

Flow

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Objective

To allow sellers to create buyer organizations.

 

Description

Sellers can use the administrative tooling to create buyer organizations. Buyers can then register under these buyer organizations, and be granted rights based on this membership.

 

Features

Allow creation of a new organization in the WebSphere Commerce organization hierarchy.

 

Customization

The organization creation process can be customized to record additional attributes about the organization.

 

Edition

Professional, Enterprise

 

Subprocesses

• Approve or reject organization

 

Tasks

Task	Description	Role
Assign roles to buyer admin	The new user is assigned the role of buyer administrator in the new buyer organization.	Seller
Create departments	The buyer organization can be partitioned into multiple departments.	Seller
Determine organization parent	Organizations must always have a parent. The Seller would have communicated the parent organization as part of the creation request.	Seller
Enter buyer admin registration info	Information about the buyer administrator is entered, including e-mail address and password.	Seller
Enter required organization info	On a Seller's behalf, the Customer Service Representative would enter information about the new buyer organization into the system. See the OrgEntityAddCmd in the online help for more details on the parameters available, including the mandatory parameters.	Seller
Submit registration form	The customer submits the registration form. If the data in the form is complete and valid, the customer is registered.	Seller

 

Business artifacts

• Approved buyer admin
• Approved registration notification
• Buyer organization
• Customer information
• Pending Buyer Administrator
• Rejected registration notification

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