# 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. This will show your options to either invite suppliers by writing one or more emails separated by commas in the "Supplier Email" bar. You can also bulk invite suppliers by selecting or dragging and dropping a CSV with up to 100 supplier emails in it. You can also add a message to your suppliers in the "Message" section that they will receive in their onboarding email. This can be used to provide additional context or instructions.

Once you click "Send Invitation", your invitation will be sent and you will see a success message.

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](https://docs.live-eo.com/tradeaware/using-the-tradeaware-web-app/assess-risk-in-your-supply-chain "mention") ## Connecting with Buyers as a Supplier After sending an invitation to connect to a Supplier, they receive an email to accept the connection. This will also contain any message you have added for your supplier.

Clicking "Connect & share my compliance data" navigates the user to the login page where they can log in to their account or [create a new one](https://docs.live-eo.com/tradeaware/readme/getting-started). After login, if you clicked the "Connect & share my compliance data" button, the invitation will be automatically accepted and will appear in your list of Buyers in the Buyers Tab

. If you are already logged into TradeAware, by clicking the notifications icon

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