Roles mapped to business models (Business Edition)

WebSphere Commerce provides default sets of roles. The Site Administrator must assign specific roles to every organization before assigning users to those roles. An organization can only take on roles that have been assigned to its parent organization.

All roles in WebSphere Commerce are scoped to an organization. For example, a user plays the Product Manager role for Organization X. In this case, Organization X must support the Product Manager role. In general, an organization must support a role before any user can be assigned that role for that organization. The access control policies could then be setup such that this user can only perform product management operations within the context of Organization X and its sub-organizations.

Note: Assigning roles to users and organizations is done in the MBRROLE table.

The default roles that come with WebSphere Commerce can be grouped into the following categories:

Each role is associated with one or more business models. Within, each model, a role can perform a select number of tasks using the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator, Administration Console, and Organization Administration Console tools.

The following table displays the access that each role has to each of the tools. Before assigning roles to users, ensure that you have the correct information on what access restrictions are applicable to that role.

Roles mapped to WebSphere Commerce tools
Roles Starter stores Tools
Account Representative
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Buyer Administrator
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Organization Administration Console
Buyer Approver
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Organization Administration Console
Buyer (sell-side)
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Buyer (buy-side)
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Hosting: Hosted store
  • Supply chain: Supplier hosted store
This role is available in the starter stores, but does not have access to any specific tool.
Category Manager
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Demand chain: Hosted store, Catalog asset store,
  • Hosting: Hosted store, Catalog asset store
  • Supply chain: Catalog asset store, Supplier hosted store
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Channel Manager
  • Demand chain: Channel hub
  • Hosting: Hosting hub
  • Supply chain: Store directory
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
  • Organization Administration Console
Customer Service Representative
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Customer Service Supervisor
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Logistics Manager
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Supply chain: Supplier hosted store
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Marketing Manager
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Demand chain: Channel hub, Hosted store, Reseller storefront asset store
  • Hosting: Hosted store, Hosted storefront asset store
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Operations Manager
  • Consumer direct
  • Demand chain: Hosted store
  • Hosting: Hosted store
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Pick Packer
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Procurement Buyer
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Supply chain: Supplier hosted store
This role is available in the starter stores, but does not have access to any specific tool.
Procurement Buyer Administrator
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Supply chain: Supplier hosted store
This role is available in the starter stores, but does not have access to any specific tool.
Product Manager
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Receiver
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Registered Customer
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Demand chain: Channel hub, Hosted store
  • Hosting: Hosting hub, Hosted store
  • Supply chain: Store directory, Supplier hosted store
This role is available in the starter stores, but does not have access to any specific tool.
Returns Administrator
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Sales Manager
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Supply chain: Supplier hosted store
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Seller
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Demand chain: Hosted store
  • Hosting: Hosted store
  • Supply chain: Supplier hosted store
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Seller Administrator
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Demand chain: Channel hub, Hosted store
  • Hosting: Hosting hub, Hosted store
  • Supply chain: Store directory, Supplier hosted store
  • Organization Administration Console
Site Administrator (Root Organization)
  • Consumer direct
  • Advanced B2B direct
  • Demand chain: Channel hub, Hosted store, Catalog asset store, Reseller storefront asset store
  • Hosting: Hosting hub, Hosted store, Catalog asset store, Hosted storefront asset store
  • Supply chain: Store directory, Supplier hosted store, Catalog asset store, Supplier asset store
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
  • Organization Administration Console
  • Administration Console

Notes:

  1. The Site Administrator is the only role with access to the Administration Console.

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