Create Suppliers and Contracts in Automotive Cloud
Supplier recovery specialists at original equipment manufacturers can capture details
about the suppliers and their products by creating supplier and supplier product records. Create
contract records to capture recovery terms for the parts procured from the supplier.
Required Editions
Available in: Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer
Editions
User Permission Needed
To create Supplier records:
Create, Edit access on Supplier, Supplier Product, Contract and Sales
Contract Line
From the App Launcher, find and select Supplier Products.
Click New and fill details such as the name of the supplier
product, the supplier name, and the product name.
Save your changes.
Create a contract record.
From the App Launcher, find and select Contracts.
Click New and fill details such as the account name, the contract
status, and the contract duration.
Save your changes.
Create a sales contract line record.
From the App Launcher, find and select Sales Contract Lines.
Click New.
Enter a name for the sales contract line.
Search for and select the contract as well as the product associated with the sales
contract line.
Enter the quantity of products.
Enter the unit price of the sales contract line.
The unit price is used to compute the claimed amount for the causal part in a supplier
recovery claim.
Claimed Amount = Quantity of Causal Parts x Unit Price in Sales Contract Line
Select the status for the sales contract line.
Specify the expense recovery type.
If only the price of the parts is covered, select Part Expense.
If labor and other expenses are covered, select Total Expense.
Select Part Return Required to specify whether the defective part
must be returned to the supplier.
Save your changes.
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