For information about how to add a supplier, see the Ariba Contract Compliance Guide.

Ariba Buyer sends this notification message to users who have the Supplier Manager permission when it determines that a supplier needs to be added to your Ariba Buyer configuration.

This notification can be sent in the following situations:

• When loading a catalog from Ariba Supplier Network (SN), if the Ariba SN catalog references a supplier that is not defined in your Ariba Buyer configuration.
• In Ariba Contract Compliance, if a selected supplier chosen during an RFX activity in Ariba Enterprise Sourcing is unknown in Ariba Buyer.
• With Catalog Item PunchOut, if the supplier ID on the PunchOut item is not defined on a partitioned supplier in Ariba Buyer.

The body of the notification message describes the supplier ID, the name of the requester, the title of the request, and the associated partition. If a supplier profile for the new supplier is available, the profile is attached to the notification message. The body of the notification message describes the required action, which is to load the new supplier into Ariba Buyer, or add appropriate supplier IDs.