Overview

This page explains why and how to use a Contract with multiple Suppliers.

About Contracts

Contracts are records that link three important vendor entities:

• Payee: The entity that is paid for the media activity.
• Order Partner: The entity that processes the order for the media activity.
• Supplier: The entity that runs the media activity.

There are two main types of Contracts:

Single-Supplier Contracts vs. Multi-Supplier Contracts

Imagine an enterprise with the following four social media-related Contracts:

• Three single-Supplier Contracts
• One multi-Supplier Contract

This enterprise has an internal specialist team that activates all of their social media campaigns.

Single-Supplier Contract

When building the schedule for a social media campaign that has media activity run by different Suppliers, the enterprise could apply the single-Supplier Contracts.

In this scenario, committing the schedule creates three orders, one for each unique combination of Payee and Order Partner.

Multi-Supplier Contract

Alternatively, the enterprise could apply a multi-Supplier Contract.

In this scenario, committing the schedule creates a single order because there is only one unique combination of Payee and Order Partner. Creating one unified order makes it easier for the internal team to manage all of the social media activity for this campaign.

Even though the Cost Lines are grouped into one order, Supplier-level information is preserved within OneStrata, meaning that:

• On the Order Details page, costs and units can still be tracked by Supplier.
• For Cost Lines with Suppliers linked to an external integration provider, that Cost Line is still automatically available on the appropriate external integration dashboard.

Multi-Supplier Contracts and SBMS

For enterprises with an external master data source of SBMS, exporting an order with multiple Suppliers from OneStrata to SBMS does not preserve Supplier-level information.

Instead, the Vendor of the corresponding SBMS placement is set as the Payee of the original Cost Line.

Add a Supplier to an Existing Contract

 To add a Supplier to an existing Contract, do the following:

1. Go to the Admin > Entity Management > Contracts page.
   
   
2. Open the desired Contract.
   
   
3. In the Vendor Hierarchy section, for the Suppliers field, select the desired Supplier(s).
   
   
4. Click Save.

Use a Multi-Supplier Contract

To use a multi-Supplier Contract, do the following:

1. Go to the Schedule tab of the desired campaign.
   
   
2. In the Schedule grid. do the following:
   1. Check that the Payee, Order Partner, and Supplier columns are displayed. If they are not displayed, add them to the Schedule grid via the column picker.
      

      Tip: If you intend to use a multi-Supplier Contract workflow frequently, consider adding the Payee and Order Partner columns to the Media Schedule template.

   2. For each Cost Line, select the desired Payee, Order Partner, and Supplier.
      
      In the default single-Supplier Contract workflow where the Payee is the same as the Order Partner is the same as the Supplier, selecting a value for one of these columns automatically fills in the other two columns.
      
      In the multi-Supplier workflow, the Payee/Order Partner and Supplier must be manually and separately selected.
      
      
3. Continue building the schedule as normal.