Process: Shop at supplier hub
Flow
Objective
To allow buyers to purchase products from multiple suppliers at once.
Description
Buyers can find products of interest from multiple suppliers through the aggregated catalog and create orders in the hosted supplier stores.
Features
Buyers can perform the following actions:
- Find products of interest from multiple suppliers through the aggregated catalog, which contains products offered by all suppliers
- Add the desired products to orders in the hosted supplier stores
- Process orders in the hosted supplier stores
- View status of orders in the hosted supplier stores
- Submit a Request for Quote (RFQ) to all or targeted suppliers, resulting in either an order or a contract
- Use a requisition list to manage the products that they order frequently
- Save shopping carts for use at a later date
Customization
- The site design and shopping flow can be customized. For example, the store's Welcome page could display information about previous orders and the checkout process could be made even quicker.
- Allow unregistered customers to access the site by using the default contract.
- May customize the layout and number of e-Marketing Spots on store pages.
- Personalize the site for each customer; for example, the store's pages could display customer-specific logos.
- Change access control policies, so that members within the same organization could see each other's shopping carts. Access control policies could also be changed, so that the customer's purchasing department could have full access to all shopping carts and orders within their organization.
Edition
Enterprise
Subprocesses
- Customer manage order
- Manage requisition list
- Multi-seller RFQ
- Order products (supplier hub)
- Register as a buyer
- Reset password (supplier hub)
- Update profile (supplier hub)
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