Supplier Collaboration Portal
The ServiceNow® Supplier Collaboration Portal application provides a seamless unified employee portal experience for supplier contacts.
- Resolve supplier inquiries using self-service and Knowledge articles
- Improve supplier data quality by enabling suppliers to manage their own data
- Accelerate case resolution by enabling suppliers to complete tasks and upload required prerequisite documents
As a supplier contact, you must first self-register to access the Supplier Collaboration Portal. For more information, see Self-register to the Supplier Collaboration Portal.
In the Supplier Collaboration Portal, you can view the requests assigned to you, open to-dos, and Knowledge articles.
For more information about installing the Supplier Collaboration Portal, see Install Supplier Collaboration Portal.
Supplier Collaboration Portal header
The portal header contains the following options:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| My Company | Opens the Supplier Profile page, which shows the supplier details. You can submit a request to update the details by selecting Request Change. For more information, see Update company profile using the supplier catalog. Important : From Xanadu December 2024 release onwards, after enabling M2M mapping between supplier contact and suppliers, the list of suppliers linked with the contact are displayed on selecting My
Company. You can select a supplier from the list which opens the company-specific Supplier Profile page. |
| Tasks | Contains the following submenus. Remarque : Only the primary contact can see the Tasks menu and its submenus in the portal header.
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| My Requests | Opens the My Requests page, which lists all the requests assigned to you. For more information, see View all your requests from the Supplier Collaboration Portal. |
| Raise a request | Option that enables you to raise a request by navigating to the General category in
the Supplier catalog. For more information, see Raising requests from the Supplier Collaboration Portal. |
Supplier Collaboration Portal widgets
| Widget | Description |
|---|---|
| How can we help? | Lets you search for any information that you're looking for. |
| My active items |
As a supplier contact, you can view and work on specific items. The information that is displayed in the tiles depends on the plugins that you have installed. Selecting a tile in the widget opens the page that
provides more information about it.
The Risk Assessments tile is displayed if you have installed the Third-party Risk Management plugin. The Contracts, Supplier Products, Purchase Orders, Shipments, and Invoices tiles are displayed if you have installed the Sourcing and Purchasing Automation (com.snc.sn_pr) and Source-to-Pay Common Architecture (com.snc.sn_shop) plugins. Important :
The data for My active items is sourced from the Activity Configurations table. For all the new custom records added to Activity Configurations that need to be shown in My active items, the corresponding ACLs for sn_slm_contact must also be explicitly added. Also, for restricting the data appearing in My active items, you can configure the user criteria by updating the Activity Access list of the Activity Configurations table. |
| My tasks | Displays a list of supplier tasks assigned to you. Selecting a task directly opens it on the My To-dos page so that you can work on that task. Select View All to view a list of all the
tasks assigned to you. Important : The data for My tasks is sourced from the To-dos Configurations table. For all the new custom records added to To-dos
Configurations that need to be shown in My tasks, the corresponding ACLs for sn_slm_contact must also be explicitly
added. |
| My requests | Displays a list of cases that you have submitted. Selecting a case directly opens the My Cases page so that you can work on that case. Select View All to view a list of all the cases that you have submitted. |
| Quick links | Enables the supplier to access internal and external resources related to specific departments within your organization. |
| My company | This section has the following fields:
Select Details to view details, contact information, payment information, and locations of your company. |
| My contacts | Displays a list of members on your team. You can call a member directly or send an
email to a member by selecting the phone icon ( Remarque : The
Invite option is available only to the primary supplier contact
and the supplier administrator. Only the primary supplier contact and the supplier
administrator can invite new members to access the Supplier Collaboration Portal. For more information, see Invite a member to access the Supplier Collaboration Portal. |
| Most viewed articles | Displays a list of the most viewed articles. |
For more information about using the Supplier Collaboration Portal, see Using Supplier Collaboration Portal.