Viewing the Supplier Relationship Status

As a buyer administrator, you can view all your existing supplier relationships. The Supplier relationships - List page provides all the information about supplier relationships.

Note: If you click the Export button on the Supplier relationships - List page, you can download the records displayed on the page as a CSV file. A maximum of 1,000 rows of records can be exported in that file.

To view the relationship status of suppliers, perform the following steps:

1.     Click Manage > Supplier relationships from the Supplier Management tab.

The Supplier relationships - List page is displayed.

Note: If you click the Select button next to a supplier name, the questions answered by the selected supplier will be displayed on the left pane.

2.     View the following details:

·         Supplier name: The name of the supplier.

·         Buyer Maintained: This column indicates whether the buyer maintains the supplier details or the supplier does.

·         Status: The relationship status of the supplier-buyer relationship.

·         Community status: The status for this relationship in terms of the buyer's community onboarding (only used or seen when a community on boarding programme is implemented).

·         Last Updated: The date and time on which the supplier's record was last updated.

·         Pending: The number of sections that the supplier needs to complete.

·         In Progress: The number of sections that are in progress.

·         Completed: The number of sections that the supplier has completed.

·         Contact: The contact for this supplier to receive e-mails to update their details/ PQQ.

·         Performance Score: The performance scored of the supplier expressed as a percentage.

Note: You can also edit the PQQ contact from the Supplier relationships - List page. For more information, see Changing the PQQ contacts.

3.     Perform any of the following steps:

·         Click the supplier name displayed under the Supplier column to view or to maintain the relationship status details on the Supplier relationships - Edit page.

·         Click the Audit tab to view a history of changes to the relationship status details such as the date and time, the user who performed the changes and the old and new values.

Note: If you click the Select button next to a supplier name, the questions answered by the selected supplier will be displayed on the left pane.

Changing the PQQ contacts

To change the PQQ contacts, perform the following steps:

1.     Click Manage > Supplier relationships from the Supplier Management tab.

The Supplier relationships - List page is displayed.

2.     Click the supplier name whose details you want to view.

3.     Click the Change contact button from the Supplier relationships - view page displayed.

4.     Enter the First name, Last name and Email of the new PQQ contact.

5.     Click Update.