Maintaining Bidder Information

This topic discuss how to maintain supplier and customer registration and convert bidders to suppliers.

Page Name

Definition Name

Usage

Maintain Sourcing Contact Information Page

AUC_USER_CONTACTPG

Bidders enter their contact information for their company, and indicate the preferred contact.

Main Page

AUC_BIDDER_MAIN_PG

Enter and maintain general bidder information, including bidder type, status, and minority business information.

Only bidders can access bidder profiles, not suppliers and customers.

Addresses Page

AUC_BIDDER_ADDR_PG

Enter and maintain bidder addresses, including the main address, bill to address, ship to address, and invoice address.

Contacts Page

AUC_BIDDER_CONT_PG

Enter and maintain bidder contacts.

Identifications Page

AUC_BIDDER_IDS_PG

Enter and maintain bidder ID numbers such as tax identification number, SIC codes, VAT information, and any profile questions.

Strategic Sourcing Tree Page

AUC_SELF_CAT_PG

Bidders can view or change their self-categorizations to indicate the types of events for which they want to receive invitations.

Maintain Instant Messaging Settings Page

AUC_BIDDER_IM_PG

Bidders enter their instant messaging user name and service.

Maintain Sourcing Contact Information Page

AUC_USER_CONTACTPG

Use to associate a company contact with the supplier user ID.

Terms and Conditions Page

AUC_VIEW_TERMS

View terms and conditions after registering to bid.

Sourcing Profile Page

AUC_VENDOR_IDS_PG

Suppliers who did not start out as bidders provide responses to profile questions.

Existing suppliers and customers can add additional registration settings. This is necessary to use chat and to receive event invitations geared towards their interests. Existing suppliers can also provide responses to optional profile questions that are part of the bidder registration.

To maintain supplier and customer registration:

  1. Access the Categorization page.

    Select desired categories.

  2. Access the Maintain Sourcing contact page.

    Add contacts.

  3. Access the IM Settings page.

    Update IM settings.

  4. Associate supplier user IDs with supplier contact names on the Maintain Sourcing Contact Information page.

Adding Supplier Profile Information

Access the Sourcing Profile page (Manage Events and Place Bids, My Sourcing Profile, Sourcing Profile).

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Sourcing Profile page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

 Sourcing Profile page

Suppliers converting to bidders can provide profile information on their Sourcing Profile page, whereas bidders converting to suppliers add or modify profile information in the My Bidder Profile component.