ONBOARDING: Motivation to Onboard (MTO) a Supplier (IBUY ONLY)

iBuy Onboarding Process 

• From the Virtual Marketplace > Find Companies, once you have selected your optimal supplier, you are able to initiate a process to onboard the selected company to your supply chain.
• From "Available Actions", select "Onboard company".

• Buyers will confirm the onboarding process by clicking the "ONBOARD" button.  Once the page is refreshed, the vendor unique reference number issued by B1 LINK, will appear on the supplier record.  The vendor number cannot be edited, please upgrade to B2B for access to this feature.
• You can unlink a company from your supply chain, select "Unlink Supplier" from the action dropdown and select "unlink" and submit when prompted.  The companies vendor number will be removed and the company will become a potential supplier again.  
• Once onboarded, the supplier can be added to other business units, add sub accounts and to include the supplier into relevant sourcing opportunities via the eRFX function.
• Suppliers are able to rate other companies they have transacted with.  If accessed again, the previous rating will be overwritten with the new rating.  The system will aggregate the rating and display the average/total.  Users can see how many other companies have rated them by viewing the indicator to the right of the gold stars.
• Onboarding new suppliers directly onto B1LINK is not available on iBuy subscription package, please upgrade to B2B for access to this feature.