Supplier AN account management

[uyentnh789]

My customer has some big suppliers. Each supplier has different salesmen handling orders by department and each supplier is only assigned to 01 ERP vendor code.
Example:
- Dept. A – contact person: Ms. Kim – k@aanb.com
- Dept.B – contact person: Mr. John – j@aanb.com

Due to some reasons: competitive price, sales KPI, confidential….Each department doesn’t want to share their customer’s information to other departments.
When Supplier transacts with my customer on DSN by their Ariba network account, How does DSN/Ariba manage this case? How can PO/documents reach different salesman separately?

[uyentnh789]

Hi team,

Any ideas or updates on this topic?

I look forwards to hearing your response.

Best regards,

Uyen

[dencilpaul]

Hey Uyen,

The Supplier portal itself should not be used for workflow management, document segregation etc . That should ideally be handled within the ERP. Having said that, have you explored the different supplier roles and what is possible with the different permissions available , for a supplier user? Might be a far shot but worth exploring just to make sure.

Thanks,
Dencil

[uyentnh789]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your response. I will take a note on exploring the relationship and permission between these suppliers.

However, I still have some queries.

As a result of this scenario, after we did the M&C for our current supplier list, we have several cases where we found multiple vendor codes in ERP match 01 supplier ANID in AN.

I want to know What can we do when we enable these suppliers in AN? How can we map (for ex) 04 suppliers codes in ERP to 01 ANID in AN? or we just choose to map 01 ERP code to 01 ANID and exclude the other three?

Thank you!

[dencilpaul]

Hey Uyen,

In an ideal world, there should only be one vendor id associated with a vendor in the ERP. But we don't live in an ideal world Take a look at this documentation -->

https://help.sap.com/viewer/5c0bdb0caa3042a288b3a1fb83b2fb1e/cloud/en-US/dd4520b5f01810149241f217680...

It talks about adding adding multiple unique supplier IDs for one supplier. Please explore this and see if this will work for your scenario.

Thanks,
Dencil