Introduction
The Vendor collaboration module in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is intended for vendors who don't have electronic data interchange (EDI) integration with Supply Chain Management.
Vendor collaboration lets vendors work with purchase orders, invoices, and also place bids on request for quotations and consignment inventory information. The vendor collaboration interface exposes a limited set of information about purchase orders, invoices, and consignment stock to external vendor users.
The following processes are supported by the Vendor collaboration module in Supply Chain Management:
- Create new vendor collaboration contacts
- Provision new vendor collaboration users
- Provide collaboration between purchasing agents and external vendors
- Monitor consignment inventory
- Work with purchase orders
- Update vendors on purchase orders
- View and submit vendor invoices
The process flow for vendor collaboration is simple. First, you send a purchase order to a vendor. The vendor then responds to the purchase order by accepting or rejecting it. If the purchase order is accepted, you can then change a purchase order and send the vendor a new version, cancel a purchase order, or add attachments to it.