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Vendor Access to Seasons, Colorways, and Products
Administrators can control the vendor’s access to actions and data through policy administration rules.
For seasons:
When the vendor has read access to season objects, the vendor has access to the season library and the My Seasons link in the side navigation tab. The vendor also has access to the Details tab for a season.
When accessing the line sheet of a season, the vendor only sees the products that the vendor has access to in a season. Products must have a sourcing configuration. Attributes on the sourcing configuration must map to supplier objects that provide access to vendors.
The vendor only has access to the season actions that the policy administrator rules allow. For example, if the vendor does not have delete access, the delete action is either not available or results in an error message.
For colorways:
When the vendor has read access to colorway objects, the vendor has access to the colorway library. The vendor must be a source of a product of colorway specified on a sourcing configuration.
When a vendor has create access, they can create colorways for products where they are identified as a vendor on the sourcing configuration. They can create colorways from the product details page and the line sheet.
When a vendor creates a colorway, the colorway is automatically associated to that vendor’s sourcing configuration for the product.
When the vendor has access to palettes, they can view the colors and materials they have access to on the palette.
If given access, vendors can view inspiration pages, silhouette pages, line boards, season groups, calendar, and dashboards. They can also generate tech packs.
If given access, vendors can create sourcing configurations, cost sheets, and samples.
The vendor only has access to the colorway actions that the policy administrator rules allow. For example, if a vendor has delete access, they can delete a colorway.
For product creation:
When the vendor creates a product, that product is associated to all the sourcing configurations associated with that vendor.
Vendors with create access to products have create permissions on sourcing configurations.
Vendors with create access for products can also create colorways.
The ability to create other product details is determined by normal policy administration rules.
When creating new cost sheets for candidate products (associated to a requirements package), the cost sheet type defaults to the cost sheet type that is defined on the requirements package. Vendors can select subtypes of that type, but no other types are available.
Vendors are not able to access placeholders, and they cannot see placeholders in the line sheet.