Reviewing Messages in the Message Center

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The Message Center is a prominent feature of the PartBridge tool.

Whenever you login to PartBridge.com, you should look at the Message Center in the upper right-hand corner of the home page first. It will tell you about any system issues or updates, and, most importantly, it will display information about your postings, opportunities and transactions.

Statements about postings, opportunities and transactions in the Message Center are hyperlinks. Clicking on a statement will take you to the appropriate window.

Example: When you click on the statement about Shortage (Buy) Postings, the Postings [My Shortages] window opens.

Notice that the shortage postings are displayed on the left and the excess postings are displayed on the right.

Postings, opportunities and transactions are listed as "new" until you view them in their respective windows.

Example: When you login to PartBridge.com at the start of a business day, the Message Center states that you have 5 Excess (Sell) Postings (2 new). After viewing your new postings in the Postings [My Excess] window, the Message Center indicates that you have 5 Excess (Sell) Postings (0 new).

Opportunities and transaction activities remain visible in the Message Center until the transaction is completed, canceled or closed. Therefore, sometimes it might seem that the Message Center is not keeping pace with your activities in a given transaction. In this way, however, the Message Center makes it easier for you to see the details of all the actions taken in a transaction. To make sure you are viewing the very latest status of your activities, click the browser's Refresh button.

Example: When you first log in, the Message Center says you have 2 POs Pending (2 new). After going to the POs Pending window, you submit PO numbers for both line items. The POs Pending screen refreshes, and the Message Center now says you have 2 POs Pending (0 new). The POs you already submitted remain visible at the POs Pending screen until the Seller closes the transaction by entering a waybill number (or cancels it at the Waybill Pending window).

The Message Center works together with PartBridge e-mail messages to keep you informed of the status of your postings, opportunities and activities.

Related topic: Learning about PartBridge.com E-mail Messages.