Process: Supply chain solution
Flow
Objective
To enable supplier hub owners to manage relationships between suppliers and buyers.
Description
Businesses seek e-commerce solutions that address their particular business or implementation needs. Usually, a business will match or vary only slightly from a business model. One such business model is the supply chain business model. This model illustrates how a business might use an e-commerce site to do the following:
- Provide suppliers with the capability to create and manage their own hosted stores
- Enable suppliers to sell to buyers through the supplier hub and their own hosted stores
- Enable buyers to purchase from multiple suppliers at the same time through the supplier hub
- Manage relationships with suppliers and buyers
Typically, supply chain businesses have the following characteristics:
- They do not own or sell products directly, but enable suppliers to sell products to buyers through the supplier hub
- They host supplier stores, which aggregate their products into the supplier hub catalog
- They manage their online relationships with suppliers and buyers
- They allow buyers to request quotes from multiple suppliers on products
Features
- Help suppliers and buyers connect
- Help suppliers to easily sell more products to buyers
- Help manage relationships with large numbers of suppliers and buyers
- Easy to learn administration
- Out-of-the-box samples
Subprocesses
- Become a supplier
- Customer service
- Develop catalog structure
- Evaluate business results
- Manage supplier hosted store
- Order management
- Shop at supplier hub
Tasks
| Task | Description | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Set up hub policies |
Use the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator to set up the store policies for the store. Setup could involve changes to store pages, store flow, or text on the store pages. |
Site Administrator |
Business artifacts
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