Connect with your supply chain

What is the TradeAware Commercial Network?

The commercial network is a free way for buyers to request plot data from their suppliers.

It allows for companies to connect with each other for ongoing data sharing to simplify the process of ongoing due diligence and to prevent re-entry of plot information for each new buyer request.

It allows suppliers to request and anonymously share data from their sub-suppliers so that don’t have to worry about sharing commercially sensitive data.

Adding Suppliers as a Buyer

To open the suppliers view, press the Suppliers icon on the left panel. If you don’t have suppliers, the table will be empty.

To start inviting suppliers, select the at the top of the Suppliers list. Here you have two options either invite suppliers one-by-one, or bulk invite multiple suppliers at once by uploading a CSV file.

Bulk Supplier Invites via CSV

TradeAware also allows you to bulk invite multiple suppliers at once by uploading a CSV file.

• A dialog will appear where you can drag and drop a file or browse files from your computer.

• The CSV file must contain one supplier email address per row.

Inviting suppliers one-by-one

By clicking the plus icon you can multi-invite suppliers. By clicking the trash icon you can delete these.

Once you added an email, you can click “Invite” to send the invitation.

By clicking the notifications icon on the left hand panel, you can see the sent request and can also cancel it.

If the Supplier declines the request, it will no longer show in the notifications centre.

If the Supplier accepts the request, they will become visible in the Suppliers table where you can see the name of the supplier, the contact email and the number of plots.

By expanding the table you can see more details for the supplier.

Selecting a Supplier will show their details and any plots they or their sub-suppliers have added as well as their risk statuses.

By selecting any plot, you can see the details of this and the map will focus to this. You can go back to the list of plots for the supplier by selecting the back arrow

You will also see the Supplier on any plots in the Plots table.

You can use the search bar at the top of the page to search your suppliers by company, commodity, contact name or email. You can also use the arrow next to the column headers to sort your suppliers by the different column data.

Assessing Supplier Risk

To learn more about how to assign risk statuses to suppliers, see Assess risk in your supply chain

Connecting with Buyers as a Supplier

After sending an invitation to connect to a Supplier, they receive an email to accept the connection.

Clicking accept navigates the user to the login page where they can log in to their account or create a new one. Once they login, you will be able to see the request in the notification centre.

In Received you will see the requests sent and can either Decline or Accept the request to access plot data.

If you accept the invitation, you will see a confirmation and can navigate to the Buyer’s information.

This will show the Buyer’s details.

You can see all of Buyers by navigating to the Buyers page by selecting the icon on the left hand panel.