Introduction

The R2023x FD01 release introduced a new cloud role:  Supplier Company Collaboration Token (YCT-OC). This role is not a user-based role, but a license role, which allows you to activate the communication channel between your company and your suppliers.

Using the communication channel, you can:

• Send messages and Request For Proposals (RFQs) to your suppliers.
• Suppliers can reply to messages and respond to RFQs.

Steps to establish the communication channel with suppliers:

1. Define the supplier in ENOVIA.
2. Define the supplier user.
3. Allocate a token to the supplier company.
4. Supplier user creates 3DExperience ID.
5. Supplier user logs in to the Supplier Connect Portal.

Let’s now review these steps in detail:

Step #1 – Define the supplier in ENOVIA:

Create the supplier company:
Create the supplier company in ENOVIA, by using the Supply Network Management application, which is available with the Supply Network Manager (PTN-OC) role.

Step#2 – Define the supplier user / representative.

Create the supplier user:

During or after the creation of the supplier company, you can create the supplier user.
The supplier user is the supplier representative, who will be invited to connect to the supplier portal. Therefore, when creating the user, you must enter the email of the user.
At this stage, the user is in Pending State.

Step#3 – Allocate a token to the supplier company

Each Supplier Company Collaboration Token (YCT-OC) license provides you a single token.
The license must be on the license server and not assigned to any ENOVIA user.
Allocate a token to a supplier company and track the tokens usage, by using the Supplier Connect Administration application, which is available with the Supply Network Manager (PTN-OC) role.

A single token allows you to send up to 10 RFQs and to connect up to 25 supplier users to the Supplier Connect Portal, per month. 

You can see the total number of tokens available to your company and the number of assigned tokens in the 'Assigned Tokens' chart.
You also have an indication about how many days left this month.
Every month you can remove the token from one Supplier Company and allocate it to another Supplier Company.

Step#4 – Supplier user creates 3DExperience ID

Once the token is allocated to the supplier company, the supplier user receives an email with an invitation to create a 3DExperience ID.

Create 3DExperience ID:

Step#5 – Supplier user logs in to the Supplier Connect Portal

Now, as a supplier user, you can log in to the Supplier Connect Portal using the link received in the email, to communicate with the OEM and to respond to RFQs.

After the supplier user logs in to the Supplier Connect portal for the first time, the user appears as an active user.

The following video illustrates this process: