TOC PREV NEXT INDEX

 

Registering As a New Direct Materials User

To register as a direct materials user, click the Register for Direct Materials button.

Note: To buy and / or sell capital and expensed equipment and direct materials, you must register separately for each kind of material.

Clicking the Register for Direct Materials button brings you to the first profile page.

  1. At the first profile page, select your company from the drop-down list.
  2. After the screen refreshes, enter a business and entity, if appropriate. Neither Business nor Entity are required.
  3. Enter a Minimum Transaction Amount in U.S. dollars. The minimum transaction amount primarily concerns sellers. It is the dollar amount per line item that makes a transaction "worthwhile". For example, your company may decide that a buyer's offer must equal at least $100 per line item to make the sale cost-effective.
  4. Click the Next Step button.
  5. Enter your User Name, which must be different from everyone else's PartBridge.com user name. Use letters, numbers and/or underscores only.

    Note: If you will be buying or selling both direct materials and capital and expensed equipment, your password for your direct materials profile must be different from your password for your capital and expensed equipment profile.

  6. Enter a password consisting of letters, numbers and/or underscores only.
  7. Confirm your password by typing it again exactly as you did in the previous step.
  8. Enter your company e-mail address, such as your_name@company.com.
  9. Click the Next Step button.
  10. Enter your name, telephone numbers and addresses (business, bill to, and ship to).
  11. Click the Next Step button.
  12. Indicate the carrier and method you will use when you need to expedite the shipment of materials you purchase. Also enter your account number with this carrier.
  13. For Invoice Ownership, indicate whether invoices are handled locally at your office or centrally at another business location.
  14. For RMA Ownership, indicate whether RMA's (Return Material Authorizations) are handled locally at your office or centrally at another business location.
  15. Click the Next Step button.
  16. Enter your e-mail address again.
  17. Select how often you would like to receive e-mail notices and reminders about PartBridge transactions.
    1. Selecting "Realtime" causes PartBridge to send you a message, such as a request for an action, as soon as the tool generates the message. Otherwise, your messages will arrive in batches at the time(s) you select.
    2. You may select up to three different times. To select more than one time, hold down the Ctrl key while you click the times.
  18. At this point, some PartBridge users are finished registering, and others have one more step to go.
    1. If you see a button or link that says Next Step, go to the next step.
    2. If you see a button or link that says Done -- Register Me!, click here.
  19. Complete the Business Rules page:
    1. Notice the kinds of relationships defined on this page. For more information, see Business Rules and Relationships (Direct Materials Only).
    2. For each company in each type of relationship, double-click the names of available users with whom you wish to work on PartBridge transactions. Their names move to the Included Participants lists. To move all the names from one list to the other, click All--> or <--All.
    3. Keep the following points in mind as you select your Included Participants:
      • Your Included Participants receive notice when PartBridge.com finds matches between both of your postings and searches.
      • Once a company has been selected under Contract Manufacturers, it is no longer listed under Exclusive Brokers, and vice-versa.
      • You can designate Included Participants for as many or as few of the companies in each category as you wish.
      • You can select any number of Included Participants from each company.
      • It is OK to leave a list blank.
  20. When you've selected all the desired Participants, click Done - Register Me!
  21. At the Registration Confirmation window, you can click the link to return to the PartBridge home page.
  22. Check your e-mail for a confirmation message containing your user name and password.

Also of interest:

www.PartBridge.com
TOC PREV NEXT INDEX