Kofax SupplierExpress - Manual (Page 23)

About SupplierExpress
Kofax SupplierExpress Administrator's Guide 23
correspondence for both you and your supplier to reference. Once suppliers register with
SupplierExpress, the Correspondence feature becomes available to them.
Your company can also use the Correspondence feature to give suppliers updates or new
information about POs, payments, and so forth.
Announcement Posting
SupplierExpress lets your company post announcements to notify all of your registered
suppliers about planned outages, new features, or other important information. Kofax
can also leverage the Announcements feature to communicate with all buyer and supplier
companies as needed.
With the Announcements feature, you can:
▪ Include rich text with embedded HTML formatting tags.
▪ Specify a start and end date for displaying each announcement.
▪ Add links to any URL.
▪ Assess the status of an announcement as pending, active or expired.
On the SupplierExpress home page, a message in the toolbar indicates how many active
announcements are open in SupplierExpress. The Announcements page displays all the
announcements sent by Kofax and all the announcements that your company created.
Suppliers see a similar notification on their SupplierExpress home page.
Access Control
You control who can access SupplierExpress within your company:
▪ When integrated with MarkView, you specify which MarkView groups have privileges
within SupplierExpress.
Note
Setting SupplierExpress Access for MarkView Groups on page 56 describes the
process for specifying which MarkView groups can access SupplierExpress.
▪ Without MarkView integration, you control who has access by inviting only those within
your company who need access.
You also control which suppliers join your supplier community through the Open Enrollment
and supplier invitation process.
Invitation Process
For security purposes, only those suppliers whom you invite to join and who register can
access the SupplierExpress service. After you invite a supplier, the supplier can invite other
contacts within their company to join the service. However, you can disable a supplier contact
and thereby prevent access to SupplierExpress.
The invitation process involves the following:
1 Through SupplierExpress, you send an invitation to a contact at the supplier company.
2 The supplier clicks a link within the invitation.