Trading partner processes the purchase order and buyer organization received the responding document via SAP Business Network buyer account to his procurement application." width="" height="" />Building on previously defined and completed activities – flight plan, communication strategy and change management – the final step is the configuration of the SAP Business Network buyer account templates.
Depending on the matching output result and the business requirements specified in the flight plan, the buyer organization can select one out of three available enablement methodologies:
Buyer needs to review and customize all message templates available on SAP Business Network buyer account which is to be used for enablement process and transactions. Ideally, the purchase order templates should be customized in test environment and included in the technical testing phase of system implementation.
However, before starting any of the enablement methodologies, it is important to pre-inform all targeted trading partners with a Project Notification Letter or an equivalent communication form. The success of any of the enablement methodologies is highly dependent on trading partner’s project awareness and compliance.
The following description provides more detailed insight into each enablement methodology, and where and how vendor master data needs to be managed on SAP Business Network buyer account.
The interactive Purchase Order process allows for the buyer to send out an order with included trading relationship request embedded into the same message. Following a pre-defined timeline, the process allows full flexibility of ad hoc enablement.
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Buyer needs to assure the accuracy of the trading partner email address to initiate a successful transaction and completion of onboarding. Once the trading relationship is established, trading partner can instantly send back order confirmation and/or invoice from the newly created account back to the buyer organization through SAP Business Network.
After the completion of the initial onboarding, all further purchase orders send from buyer procurement application will be routed directly to the trading partner’s account.
The Walk Up process allows buyer to send a TRR manually and directly to a known supplier account. To do so, the buyer needs to know the AN ID (identification number of an active trading partner’s account) of the trading partner’s existing account. The ANID could be either communicated by the trading partner to buyer. Otherwise, or the SAP Business Network matching result on AVATAR provides the ANID in case a supplier account was identified.
To complete the onboarding activities, it is mandatory for the buyer to add required master data of trading partner to the newly created trading partner record on SAP Business Network buyer account. The specification of the trading partner’s Vendor ID (how to set up a new vendor in the buyer ERP
) and System ID (as pre-defined on the buyer account business end-points configuration)
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The initiation of trading relationship requests in bulk and at the same time is possible with the use of Vendor Upload File (VUF) process. This process allows for the buyer to execute the enablement process with the wave approach directly from the SAP Business Network buyer account and to complete onboarding activities with each trading partner before business go live.
This process requires buyer to:
