Steps: Configure Alternate Item Identifiers
Alternate item identifiers are a standard set of code that trading partners (suppliers, buyers, or customers) use to identify trade items. You can use alternate item identifiers to:
- Compare prices from various suppliers when shopping online.
- Quickly identify suppliers for commodities in the market place.
- Provide visibility and reporting on purchase items.
- Relate supplier-based universal identifiers and purchase items.
- Automatically link items from suppliers to purchase items during catalog loads and punchout to supplier sites.
Examples: Manufacturer part number, GTIN, or universal product code (UPC).
- Associate alternate item identifier types with spend categories. When you create purchase items with spend categories, the item inherits the types of alternate item identifiers.
- For purchase items, define a value for each type of alternate item identifier. Workday lists types of identifiers based on the spend category of the purchase item.
You can search for purchase items on specific tasks using alternate item identifiers. On some documents, you can configure certain alternate identifiers into separate columns for searching and sorting.
You can use alternate item identifiers to automatically link supplier items to internal purchase items.
- Link catalog items to purchase items in theCatalog Load Requesttask.
- Link web items to internal purchase items in theMaintain Web Itemstask.