The Buyer from the selling organization is the primary contact with vendors. The Buyer handles negotiations and ordering from vendors keeps track of inventory. The Buyer also makes purchase order decisions and tracks expected inventory records and receipts tracks reasons for returns.
Learning objectives
Learn how to using the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator to perform the following tasks:
- Create products and associated SKUs
- View, classify, change or delete product information
- Create operational information for each product
- Create, view, change, delete and show receipts for expected inventory records
- Create, view, change and delete vendor information
Prerequisite skills
You should understand store procedures and how to use a Web browser.
Getting Started
The following list shows all tasks that a Buyer can perform, each link leads to more information.
Products
- Manage products:
- Find and list catalog entries
- Change catalog entry types, such as products, SKUs, bundles and kits
- Find, list, create, and change merchandising associations (such as up-sells or cross-sells)
- Find and list expected inventory records
- Find and list product vendors
- Manage auctions:
- Find, list, create, change, and retract auctions
- List, create, and change auction styles
- List, create, change, and delete bid control rules
- Close the bidding for auctions
- List and withdraw bids for customers
- Manage promotions:
- List, create, and delete promotions
- View a summary of each promotion
- Activate and deactivate promotions
- Use Product Advisor:
- Help customers find the products they need, including exploring the catalog, comparing products, and using question and answers to narrow down shopping options
- View Product Advisor statistics
Sales
- View RFQs (requests for quotes)
- Work with reports
- order management reports
- operational reports
Store
- Work with approvals
- List, find, approve, and reject approval requests
- View a summary of each approval request
- List and find approval submissions
- View a summary of each approval submission
- Collaborate
- Participate in asynchronous collaborative business discussions in the form of workspaces using Lotus QuickPlace
- Work with fulfillment centers
- Create, change and delete fulfillment centers
- Request and view business intelligence reports, such as account and contract management, marketing, and sales reports. Many of the business reports are generated by WebSphere Commerce Analyzer.
- Work with operational reports
- Request and view operational reports, such as inventory management, order management, and fulfillment reports; or traffic and sales performance. These reports are generated in real time from your operational database.