Setting Up Inventory Collection

Before inventory collection can be performed, you have to specify which partners participate in it, and specify login information if partners require it.

To Perform Inventory Collection

1. Click Channel Inventory on the Channel Management panel on the Comergent eBusiness System home page.

   If you do not see this link on the Comergent eBusiness System home page, then you have not been assigned the appropriate function to perform this task.

2. On the Inventory Collection page, select by clicking those sales partners from whom you wish to gather inventory information. Only partners whose partner type is "Distributor" are displayed on this page.

   For one or more distributors, you might need to enter login information to be authenticated on the partner site. The username/password combination that you enter here must be agreed in advance between you and each sales partner. Note that the need for login information is a configurable attribute that is set by the distributor in the distributor's partner profile.

3. Click Save.

   The Comergent eBusiness System polls the selected distributors for availability information on each product, and saves the resulting information in the database.

4. (Optional) Enter a value in the Product Count column.

   The product count value is the number of products that are sent in each message to the distributor. If no value is entered, then all the products are sent in one message. A product count value is useful when there are many products.

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