How to create your own view on a Supplier Location

In Validaide, we work with different views on a supplier location. You can use your supplier view or define your own view on supplier locations.

Forwarder Preference

To create your own view, you need to answer the questionnaire for the Supplier Location. If the company is also active on Validaide and has defined its capabilities of the location, you can view them online and easily copy them. You can also copy answers from your direct suppliers, who created views on their subcontractors. If there are no supplier views available, the questionnaire needs to be answered by the responsible person on the forwarder side.

In the  menu, you click on a supplier location, and you can see all the shared and public views in the Compare tab:

Highlighted in yellow is the view of the location owner.

Under the compare tab, you can see the answers given by other companies who have shared their view with you or have shared them publicly. The first column will show your own view, followed by the view of the location owner, and then the views of other suppliers who have created a view of this location. You can click on the answers in the blue dotted lines to copy them into your view. Optionally you can use the button to transfer their answers to your own view, which you can then modify if you would like to.

You can also edit the questionnaire by entering your own answers under the Questionnaire Tab.

To answer or edit the Questionnaire:

1. 1. Answer the questions by simply clicking on the correct answer.
   2. Add a comment if you wish to clarify an answer.
   3. Delete an answer by clicking the reset button.

Once you have filled in the questionnaire sufficiently, it is important to ensure it reaches Reviewed status. Otherwise, this information cannot be used in a lane risk assessment.

To Review your capabilities:

1. Click the button.
2. An email will be sent to the reviewer to review the location capabilities.

Reviewer:

1. Go to the My Locations menu and click on the location whose capabilities you would like to review.
2. In the Questionnaire tab review the answers.
3. If everything is correct, click on to get the location into Reviewed status.

To modify capabilities once they have been reviewed, the Responsible User can click on to make changes in the questionnaire.

When defining capabilities in a workflow, if the same user is assigned as both the Responsible and the Reviewer, they can review the capabilities in one step. 

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