Discovery and Enrich feature for D&B Integration.

Answer

Answer:?VSM provides Discovery and Enrich feature for D&B & Equifax.

Discovery allows you to search for suppliers in D&B using the criteria provided by D&B in their web service. Once you have discovered suppliers:
?- You can select supplier for qualification - This creates a supplier record in SLM data source in VSM. Supplier is also made available for qualification in SLM application.
?-? If D&B Discovery feature is enabled then you can also qualify suppliers imported into D&B data source in VSM.
?- You can on-board a supplier - This creates a supplier record in D&B?data-source?in VSM. If you have setup rules to master the suppliers in D&B data source then the supplier would get mastered and will be available to all the?applications

Enrich feature allows users to update VSM Master Suppliers (and linked data source suppliers) with data from D&B:
- Enrich action on Master brings up a comparison screen with data from Master & D&B. It's a stare and compare screen. If the user chooses to Enrich then the selected data is pulled from D&B supplier into the Master supplier in VSM. Changes are propagated to the linked data source suppliers in the applications.
- Enrich action will work even if the Master supplier is not linked to D&B Supplier as long as the Master supplier contains a valid D&B number in the DUNS attribute.

Discovery data elements used for search interface
Restful web service endpoint - /search/company/advanced

General
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duns number - duns
name - companyName
stock symbol - stockTicker
keywords / companyKeyword
include_out_of_business - nonMarketableCompanyFilterOptions/includeOutOfBusiness
established year - yearFoundingFrom/yearFoundingTo
annual sales - companySize/salesFrom/salesTo
employees number - companySize/employeesFrom/employeesTo

Search by location
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street name - location/streetAddress
city - location/city
state - location/usStateCanadaProvince / globalState
country - location/countryId
postal code - location/zipCode
postal radius? - location/ZipAreaSearch/zipCode/radius/scale

Search by Ownership
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minority owned - minorityOwned
ownership ethnicity - ethnicity
woman owned - womenOwned