A data supplier is an organisation or individual that you invite to contribute data to one or more of your datasets.
Suppliers must be assigned to a 'Supplier Group' within the gather360 workspace.
These Supplier Groups enable you to assign multiple users from one organisation or department to the same group and delegate a central user that is the point of contact for that group. This enables gather360 to measure the impact of internal departments or external organisations that contribute to your data supply chain.
All Supplier Group members receive notifications on the status of data requests and are enabled to supply data in response to data requests that are assigned to them.
Suppliers can have two statuses:
A Supplier Admin is responsible for managing your supplier group.
They may add or remove users from this group and are typically treated as the point of contact for any overdue data requests.
They can complete the following activities:
Add new suppliers to their group
Remove suppliers to their group
Assign a new admin to their group
Upload files to open data requests assigned to their supplier group
Map uploads to required dataset fields
Resolve data errors
Remove data requests where no data is available
A Supplier User is responsible to uploading data on behalf of their Supplier Admin or Supplier Group.
They can complete the following activities:
Upload files to open data requests assigned to their supplier group
Map uploads to required dataset fields
Resolve data errors
Remove data requests where no data is available
To contribute data, a supplier must be invited to create a gather360 account and join your workspace.
To invite a supplier, navigate to the 'Suppliers' tab in the left sidebar of the gather360 product. When this tab has loaded, click the orange 'Manage Suppliers' button in the top right corner.
When the Supplier Management Screen has loaded, click the orange '+ New Supplier Group' button on the right side. Here you can add the contact details for a new data supplier.