Buyer Administrator Information roadmap (B2B Direct) (Enterprise)

The Buyer Administrator role exists only within a business-to-business site. In a business-to-business site, there can be one or more buyer organizations belonging to the site. After you have established which businesses will participate in a buying relationship with your site, you will have to create a buyer organization for each business. You can have as many buyer organizations as you need. Buyer organizations can have sub-organizations or divisions, that represent different buying activities for the organization.

Learning objectives

Learn how to using the Organization Administration Console to manage buyer organizations and users.

Prerequisite skills

You should understand store procedures and how to use a Web browser.

Getting Started

Background information

• Organization Administration Console
• Approvals
  • Approval flows
• Roles
• Member groups

Create a seller organization and users

Learn how to use the Organization Administration Console to set up buyer organizations, here is an outline of the steps:

1. Create a new organization.
2. (Optional) Define approvable actions.

3. Assign roles to the new buyer organization. Typical roles for a buyer organization include Buyer Administrator, Buyer (buy-side), Buyer Approver, and so on.

4. Create users and assign them roles. When assigning roles, you will select them from the list of roles you assigned to the buyer organization in the previous step.

5. Repeat the entire procedure for each buyer organization you want to add to the site.

Managing a buyer organization and users

• Users
  • Finding a user
  • Listing users
  • Changing a user
  • Selecting roles for a user
  • Excluding users from member groups
  • Including users in member groups
• Organizations
  • Listing organizations
  • Searching for an organization
  • Changing an organization
  • Subscribing to policy groups

Related concepts

• Information roadmap

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