Create partner

The partner concept is one of the tools for granular control of access to product data. Partners are divided into suppliers that provide product data and buyers that download product data to sell your products via their sales channels.

In this example, a new supplier that can import items into iPIM as well as iPIM Supply is created. The supplier is related to a user. As long as the user possesses the required rights, they can, for example, edit supplier attributes on the supplier level of the respective supplier, or they can import item data via particular catalogs in iPIM Supply. This applies to catalogs the supplier is assigned to.

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Detailed informations about how to set up partners you can find. here. And a list of the required rights you can find here.

Step 1: Create a partner of the type “Supplier”

In this step, the supplier is created:

  1. Go to iPIM CC and call up the partner administration in the “Partners” section.
  2. Click on the CREATE button in the uppermost card to call up the corresponding dialog box.
  1. Enter the supplier name in the “Name” field.
  2. Enter the external ID of the supplier in the “External ID” field. This can be the supplier number of the supplier (optional).
  3. From the menu “Type”, select the option “Supplier”.
  4. From the menu “Supplier import source”, select the option “iPIM Supply” to specify that item respectively product data can be imported into iPIM as well as iPIM Supply.
  5. Click on the SAVE button to finalise the creation of the supplier. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.
    The supplier is now created.
 

Step 2: Relate the supplier to a user

In this step, the newly created supplier is related to a user:

  1. Select the supplier from the selection menu in the uppermost card.
  1. Scroll to the “Related users” card.
  1. Click on the CREATE button in the footer of the card to call up the corresponding dialog box.
  1. Use the text search above the left column to filter the list of available partners by a search term.
  2. Transfer the supplier from the left column to the right column to select it. To do so, click on the supplier.
  3. Click on the SAVE button to finalise the process. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.
    The supplier is now related to the user.