| # Supplier 360 (tdsmi1501m000) Use this session to view, maintain, and create buy-from business partner-related data. With this session, LN provides an overview of supplier information and enables a buyer to easily perform multiple supplier-related tasks. In a company, buyers are responsible for procuring materials and for negotiating with various buy-from business partners and internal agencies on these materials. As a result, they spend a lot of time on tracking materials and answering supply-, quality-, and payment-related questions. Because this session gives a quick overview of buy-from business partner information and easy access to buy-from business partner-related data, the negotiation process is smoothened. How to use the Supplier 360 (tdsmi1501m000) session If you select a buy-from business partner from the business partner list in the Supplier 360 (tdsmi1501m000) session, information about the business partner is displayed. If you double-click a record, the Business Partner (tccom4100s000) session starts. The check marks under Purchase, Vendor Rating, SRM, and Miscellaneous indicate which data is available for the business partner. If you click a link, a session is started in which you can view, maintain, or create the business partner data. You can click the following links: SRM RFQ - Business Partner You can use the RFQ Bidders (tdpur1505m000) session to view, enter, maintain, and delete requests-for-quotations (RFQs). LN only displays open RFQs, which are the RFQs with the status Created, Printed, Modified, and Returned. You can click All RFQ-BP on the appropriate menu to view all the RFQs that are linked to the business partner. Activities Use the Activities (tccom6100m000) session to view, enter, maintain, and delete business partner-related activities. Contacts Use the Contacts by Business Partner Role (tccom4545m000) session to view, enter, and maintain the contacts of the business partner. Notes Use the Notes (tcstl1550m000) session to view, enter, and maintain notes related to a business partner. Purchase Purchase Orders Use the Purchase Orders (tdpur4100m000) session to view, enter, maintain, and delete purchase orders. LN only displays open purchase orders, which are the orders for which parts must still be received and, as a result, have a status other than Closed, and Canceled. You can click Any State on the appropriate menu to view all purchase orders. Purchase Contracts You can use the Purchase Contracts (tdpur3100m000) session to view, enter, maintain, and delete/terminate purchase contracts. LN only displays purchase contracts with the Free, or Active status. You can click All Contracts on the appropriate menu to view all purchase contracts. Purchase Schedules You can use the Purchase Schedules (tdpur3110m000) session to view, enter, maintain, and delete purchase schedules. LN only displays purchase schedules with the Active, Termination in Process, and Schedule Positions Full status. You can click All Schedules on the appropriate menu to view all purchase schedules. Potential Back Orders You can use the Potential Purchase Back Orders (tdpur4101m700) session to view, maintain, and confirm potential back orders. Purchase Item History Use the Purchase Item History by Business Partner (tdpur4551m100) session to view which items are purchased from a buy-from business partner. On the appropriate menu, you can choose to view only the received and invoiced items, or all purchased items. Vendor Rating by Period Use the Vendor Ratings by Period (tdpur8102m000) session to view and maintain the vendor ratings for a business partner by period. by Criterion Use the Vendor Ratings by Criterion (tdpur8102m100) session to view and maintain the vendor ratings for a business partner by criterion. Miscellaneous Purchased Item 360 Use the Purchased Item 360 (tdipu0103m000) session to enables a buyer to easily perform multiple item-related tasks. Item - Purchase Business Partner Use the Item - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session to view, enter, or maintain business partner specific information that is related to a specific purchased item. Related topics Integration between LN and Twitter Buyer The employee of your company who is the contact to the concerned buy-from business partner. The buyer is also known as the purchasing agent. Only show the Business Partners for Buyer If this check box is selected, only the business partners that are relevant for the specific buyer are displayed. These are the buy-from business partners for which the Buyer field in the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4120s000) session has the same value as the Buyer in the current session. If this check box is cleared, LN displays all business partners from the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4120s000) session. Name The name of the buy-from business partner's contact. Related topics Integration between LN and Twitter E-Mail The buy-from contact's e-mail address. Office Phone The buy-from contact's office telephone number. Mobile Phone The buy-from contact's mobile telephone number. Credit Limit The maximum financial risk that you accept or are insured against concerning an invoice-to business partner, or that an invoice-from business partner accepts concerning you. When you create orders, LN continually checks that the total amount of created and invoiced orders does not exceed the credit limit. When you exceed the limit, LN gives a warning message. Related topics The business partner's credit limit Order blocking Order Balance The balance of outstanding orders. Related topics Business partner balances Order blocking Balance Payable The total unpaid invoice amount. Related topics Business partner balances Available Credit The balance of all unpaid invoices relating to one particular business partner. Currency The business partner's standard business currency. Year The year to which the turnover amount applies. Turnover The annual sales volume. Picture The business partner's picture, which is defaulted from the Picture field in the Business Partner (tccom4100s000) session. RFQ - Business Partner If this check box is selected, requests for quotations are linked to the business partner in the RFQ Bidders (tdpur1505m000) session. Potential Back Orders If this check box is selected, potential back orders are available for the business partner in the Potential Purchase Back Orders (tdpur4101m700) session. Purchase Orders If this check box is selected, purchase orders are available for the business partner in the Purchase Orders (tdpur4100m000) session. Purchase Item History If this check box is selected, purchase item history is available for the business partner in the Purchase Item History by Business Partner (tdpur4551m100) session. Purchase Contracts If this check box is selected, purchase contracts are available for the business partner in the Purchase Contracts (tdpur3100m000) session. Purchase Schedules If this check box is selected, purchase schedules are available for the business partner in the Purchase Schedules (tdpur3110m000) session. Vendor Rating by Period If this check box is selected, vendor ratings are available for the business partner by period in the Vendor Ratings by Period (tdpur8102m000) session. Vendor Rating by Criterion If this check box is selected, vendor ratings are available for the business partner by criterion in the Vendor Ratings by Criterion (tdpur8102m100) session. Activities If this check box is selected, activities are linked to the business partner in the Activities (tccom6100m000) session. Contacts If this check box is selected, contacts are linked to the business partner in the Contacts by Business Partner Role (tccom4545m000) session. Purchased Item 360 If this check box is selected, you can easily perform multiple item-related tasks in the Purchased Item 360 (tdipu0103m000) session. Item - Business Partner If this check box is selected, item-business partner information is available in the Item - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session. Business Partner The business partner from whom you order goods or services; this usually represents a supplier's sales department. The definition includes the default price and discount agreements, purchase-order defaults, delivery terms, and the related ship-from and invoice-from business partner. Search Key Use the search key to find a business partner. LN automatically fills this field with the first 16 positions of the business partner's name. The letters are converted into capitals. Address The business partner's address. House Number The business partner's house number. ZIP Code The business partner's ZIP code. City The city where the business partner resides. Country The country where the business partner resides. Telephone The country's international access-number for the telephone. Telephone The business partner's telephone number. Status You can choose a status for the business partners, which indicates whether you can trade with them or not. Allowed values Business Partner Status Parent Business Partner The business partner that links the various business-partners with different roles in a distributed business partner organization. If you define branches of one company as different business partners, the business partners must all have the same parent business partner. Title The title used on the documents addressed to the business partner. Effective Date The date and time when the business partner's status takes effect. If you leave this field empty, the status takes effect immediately. Related topics Business partner status Expiry Date The expiry date and time of the business partner's status. If you leave this field empty, the status continues. Related topics Business partner status Language The language used for documents addressed to the business partner. If no document is available in this language, the document in the company language is used. Related topics To print external documents in other languages Currency The currency used for the initial transactions with the business partner, for example, request for quotations, or sales quotations. On invoices LN uses the default currency you specify for the invoice-to business partner and invoice-from business partner roles. Related topics Currencies - overview One-Time Business Partner If this check box is selected, the business partner is a one-time business partner. Note When you process the billing request and print the invoice, the invoice address of one-time business partners is entered in Invoicing. Affiliated Company If this check box is selected, the business partner is an affiliated company. The affiliated company is used in: The multisite master plan to distinguish the dependent demand from the independent demand when analyzing the order file in Enterprise Planning. Multicompany electronic data interchange to determine the company for which an internal EDI message is meant. Financials, to generate a reconciliation report for the companies for which LN generates intercompany settlements. Note This check box is enabled if you have defined all the business partner roles for the business partner. Related topics Overview of enterprise modeling Intercompany transactions Affiliated Company No. The company number of the affiliated company represented by the business partner. You can link a logistic company to only one business partner. Chamber of Commerce The business-partner's identification number at the chamber of commerce. Commercial Identification An information field that you can use, for example, for the business partner's identification number at a credit insurance company, such as Dun & Bradstreet. Business Partner Texts If you select a business partner in this field, the text linked to this business partner is printed on external documents. For example, you can print text linked to the sold-to business partner (special delivery agreements) on the shipping order printed for the ship-to business partner. If you leave this field empty, only text linked to the current business partner is printed on documents for the business partner. Address The business partner's default address. Contact The default contact for this business partner. Front Office ID The ID for the business partner generated by a front office application. Internal Business Partner If this check box is selected, the business partner is an internal business partner. In Invoicing you can only send invoices to and receive invoices from business partners. Therefore, if you want to invoice an enterprise unit of your own company, or if you receive invoices from an enterprise unit, you must define the enterprise unit as an internal business partner. You can link only one internal business partner to an enterprise unit. If you select this check box, on the appropriate menu, you can click Enterprise Modeling to start the Internal Business Partners (tcemm1122m000) session in which you can enter the business partner's enterprise unit. Note You can select this check box only when you create a new business partner. Before you can select his check box, you must first define all the business partner roles. To remove the link between the business partner and the enterprise unit, clear this check box and save the data. Related topics Intercompany transactions Intercompany Settlement If this check box is selected, intercompany settlement transactions can be generated for the business partner. Note If the business partner is involved in intercompany settlement transactions, the invoice-from business partner must not be a subcontractor. If you select this check box: LN clears the One-Time Business Partner check box. You cannot select the Self-Billing check box in the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4120s000) session. Related topics Intercompany settlement transactions – setup I-Code The business partner's Intracom code. Related topics The Belgian Balance of Payments report data Factor If this check box is selected, the business partner acts as a factor. If the factor handles your invoices and collects payments from your customers, the factor must have the pay-by role. If the factor collects payments on behalf of your suppliers, the factor must have the pay-to role. Note Before you can select this check box, you must define the pay-by and the pay-to roles for the business partner. Related topics Factoring EU Company No. If the business partner is an internal business partner, this is the enterprise unit's operational company. Collection Office If this check box is selected, the business partner is considered a collection office. Creation Date The date the business partner data, business partner role data, or business partner address data was created. Last Modification Date The date the business partner data, business partner role data, or business partner address data was last modified. To be Verified If this check box is selected, you must still verify the business partner's details or status. When you verify the business partner's details or status, clear the check box. Related topics Business partner default data Text If this check box is selected, a text is present. New Appointment Starts the Appointment (tccom6600m100) session in which you can enter a new appointment. New Task Starts the Task (tccom6600m300) session in which you can enter a new task. New Call Starts the Call (tccom6600m200) session in which you can enter a new call. New Email Starts the Email (tccom6600m500) session in which you can enter a new e-mail. Price Simulator Starts the Price Simulator (tdpcg0200m300) session. Planned Inventory Transactions by Order Starts the Order - Planned Inventory Transactions (whinp1501m000) session, in which you can view planned inventory transactions by order. Planned Inventory Transactions by Item Starts the Planned Inventory Transactions (whinp1500m000) session, in which you can view planned inventory transactions by item. Inventory by Item and Warehouse Starts the Warehouse - Item Inventory (whwmd2515m000) session, in which you can view item inventory by warehouse. Inventory by Item, Warehouse, Location, Lot Starts the Warehouse - Item - Lots Inventory (whltc1505m000) session, in which you can view lots by warehouse. RFQ - Business Partner Starts the RFQ Bidders (tdpur1505m000) session. Purchase Orders Starts the Purchase Orders (tdpur4100m000) session. Purchase Contracts Starts the Purchase Contracts (tdpur3100m000) session. Purchase Schedules Starts the Purchase Schedules (tdpur3110m000) session. Potential Back Orders Starts the Potential Purchase Back Orders (tdpur4101m700) session. Purchase Item History Starts the Purchase Item History by Business Partner (tdpur4551m100) session. by Period Starts the Vendor Ratings by Period (tdpur8102m000) session. by Criterion Starts the Vendor Ratings by Criterion (tdpur8102m100) session. Activities Starts the Activities (tccom6100m000) session. Attributes Starts the Attributes by Business Partner (tdsmi1101m000) session. Contacts Starts the Contacts by Business Partner Role (tccom4545m000) session. Addresses Starts the Addresses by Business Partner (tccom4133m000) session. Purchased Item 360 Starts the Purchased Item 360 (tdipu0103m000) session. Item - Purchase Business Partner Starts the Item - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session. Business Partner for Buyer Only shows the business partners that are relevant for the buyer. These are the buy-from business partners for which the Buyer field in the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4120s000) session has the same value as the Buyer in the current session. |