Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Help

Introduction

Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition is one of the major components of your online purchasing system. Together with the Commerce One MarketSite software, it facilitates all aspects of electronic business-to-business procurement.

System Capabilities

Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition is a browser-based application that allows both professional and casual corporate users to perform the following operations:

Browse and search an online catalog of purchasable items
Compare alternative suppliers for an item
Make online checks of item availability and current price from a number of suppliers
Create special request Shopping Carts for non-standard (or off-catalog) items
Use RoundTrip to connect from within Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition, directly to a supplier's own website. There they can check latest prices, availability, detailed specifications, and create custom configurations before adding the item to their Shopping Cart (not all suppliers have RoundTrip capability.)
Quickly re-order recurring items using Shopping Cart templates and lists of favorite items
Fill-out SmartForms with customized instructions and specifications for products and services.
Create Shopping Carts to be processed according to site business rules and Orders dispatched to suppliers
Approve, reject or modify Shopping Carts made by subordinate users
View the status of previously submitted Shopping Cart s and Order s
Approve, reject or modify Change Request s and Updates returned by suppliers because of price or availability discrepancies
Obtain advance notice of shipments along with shipping and packaging information
Receive ordered shipments and track ordered, delivered and back-ordered item status

Nomenclature Changes: The terms Requisition and Purchase Order used in earlier versions are obsolete and have replaced by Shopping Cart and Order, respectively.

In this version of this product and its documentation, the terms Shopping Cart and Order are used exclusively.

User Privileges

Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition recognizes a corporate purchasing workflow and hierarchy. Depending on a user's User Profile and Buying Organization membership, they are given access to:

View an Enterprise Catalog incorporating products of varying categories and suppliers.
Authorize their own purchases up to a Spending Limit (without further approval)
View other buyers' Shopping Carts and approve them, up to an Approval Limit.
Temporarily delegate some of their responsibilities to another member of their Buying Organization.

The information you are able to see, and the tasks you are able to perform on your system, depends upon the privileges granted to you by your Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Administrator.

Supplier Limitations

Some suppliers are fully integrated with an e-marketplace, allowing continuous, two-way communication between Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition and the Supplier. This allows regular and accurate updating of product pricing and inventory.

Other, Hosted suppliers are not fully integrated. They must connect periodically to the e-marketplace, to receive Buyer's orders and send back responses. Online checks of price and purchase status are updated periodically by Hosted suppliers at a time interval agreed with your Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Administrator. At other times, you have access to only the local catalog contents and an estimated availability.

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