Basic concepts

Supplier Portal uses the following basic concepts of user administration.

• Identity

  Users are uniquely identified by their email addresses and user names.

• User statuses

  Whether user is allowed to log into the portal is determined by the status assigned to the user.

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  A role is assigned to every user. Roles are a way to control what users are allowed to do after logging in to the portal.

• Groups and vendor

  Buyer admin users are assigned to a group, and supplier users to a vendor. This assignment determines the initial authorizations of the user. In the case of buyer admin users, it also determines the Worklist that is displayed to the user.

• Privileges

  Buyer admin users have a set of assigned privileges that determine the default actions these users are allowed to perform.