IBM? Sterling Supplier Portal enablesPartners (Suppliers) to become part of a Supplier trading community.Partners can perform such tasks as viewing details of Purchase Orders(POs) shipments and invoices and creating acknowledgements AdvanceShipment Notifications (ASNs) and invoices for POs. Partners canalso modify the public profile of their organization view their agreementwith Sponsors (Buyers) and configure the Dashboard to display variouspanels.

These tasks can be broadly classified as follows:

• View and Configure the Dashboard

  The Dashboard comprises panelsthat enable a Partner to view concise data. The Dashboard can be configuredto display the Overview of tasks Next Tasks Overdue Tasks and OpenOrders.

• Create Documents

  When Sponsors configure their community asa Supplier community they select a sequence of Electronic Data Interchange(EDI) documents to set the rules for their community. If they sendor receive Drop Ship documents they can select XML format as well.This sequence of EDI and XML documents is termed as the choreographyfor that community. Partners follow this choreography when workingwith the Sponsor.

• View Documents
• Review and Process Orders