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Workday User Guide
Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Invite Suppliers

Invite Suppliers

Start a sourcing event.
You can invite suppliers to participate in your sourcing events.
A supplier receives certain data when you invite them to RFx events, auctions, or reviews. Once you publish an event, the event data becomes available in the supplier portal. For example, if you:
  • Change the due date of a published event, that event updates in the supplier portal.
  • Remove an auction, that auction is removed in the supplier portal.
Remove the supplier from the event to stop sending this data. When you remove a supplier from an event, that supplier can no longer access the event data in the supplier portal.
  1. Navigate to
    Events
     and access your sourcing event.
  2. In the
    Invite Suppliers
     section, click
    Open Supplier Directory
    .
    When you have commodity codes enabled, you can add all suppliers that use that commodity code. Add the commodity code to your event in the
    Commodity Code
     section. After you add suppliers using commodity codes, you can modify the
    Invite Suppliers
     list by adding or removing suppliers.
  3. (Optional) Add new suppliers to the supplier directory.
  4. Add the suppliers that you want to invite to the event.
  5. Publish the sourcing event.
When you publish your sourcing event, all the invited suppliers receive an email invitation. The suppliers can use this invitation to sign up for Strategic Sourcing.

This content is not part of the Workday Administrator Guide.