An organization and a common supplier cannot share the same organization ID. Common suppliers cannot share the same organization ID, and common suppliers cannot have more than one organization ID in the same domain. For example, common suppliers cannot have two organization IDs in the same domain Duns with different values. Common suppliers must include all the organization IDs of their partitioned suppliers. You cannot modify or delete the default organization ID (with domain buyersystemid) of a common supplier. For more information on organizations and common suppliers, see the Ariba Buyer Data Load Guide.

The address choices for common suppliers include shared addresses that are nonpartitioned (ariba.basic.core.Address objects). For more information on address objects, see the Ariba Buyer Data Load Guide.

You can only select contacts who belong to the common supplier you are editing. After creating a new common supplier, you must use the Shared Users task in the User Manager to create shared users who belong to that common supplier. Then you can return to the Suppliers task in the Supplier Manager to edit the common supplier and select contacts.

When you click Save, your changes are saved to the Ariba Buyer database. Objects (such as users, roles, and PCards) with the Adapter Source set to ManuallyMaintained are maintained within Ariba Buyer and not updated by integration events. Objects with the Adapter Source not set to ManuallyMaintained can be overwritten or deleted by integration events. For more information, see About the adapter source.

1. Enter required profile information, such as the adapter source and name.
2. Create or delete organization IDs (domain and value pairs).
   • To create an organization ID, click Create New and then select a domain (naming system) from the pull-down menu and enter an ID value.
   • To delete one or more organization IDs, click their check boxes and then click Delete.
3. If available, click the Table Options icon, located in the row above the column headers, to display commands that control the display of data in the table. For example, you can hide or show columns of data; group data; or export data to Excel.
4. Enter profile information for the common supplier, including specifying an address for the common supplier.
   • To specify an address, make a selection from the Address pull-down menu. Select Other... from the list to display available choices.
   • To specify a currency value for minimum and maximum annual revenue, click the currency icon.
5. Enter contact information for the common supplier.
• To create a new contact, click Create New and then select a user from the User pull-down menu. Select Other... from the list to display available choices. No available choices are displayed when you are creating a new common supplier.
• Select a contact description from the Contact Description pull-down menu. Select Other... from the list to enter your own text description.
• To delete one or more contacts, click their check boxes and then click Delete.
6. Specify owner information by selecting or deselecting one or more check boxes.
7. Create a new partitioned supplier that is linked to this common supplier.
• To create a partitioned supplier, click Create New.
8. Relink an existing partitioned supplier to the common supplier you are creating.
   • To relink partitioned suppliers that are currently linked to other common suppliers, click Relink from another Common Supplier.
9. Click Save to save the new common supplier or Cancel to return to the previous screen without saving the new common supplier.
   • When you create a common supplier, a log message is created in the database audit log.