1. Lesson 2: Modeling Participants (Cache Administrators only)

2. Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 Objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to: - Access configurator - Identify Participants in the ICBS-R Network - Map ICBS-R Roles to Participants Please note that most users will not have to configure any relationships since most relationships are set up and maintained in the Configurator by the NWCG System Admin.

3. Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 What is Participant Modeling? Defines the relationships between organizations in an extended supply chain network. Assign roles to specify which participants in the supply chain have access to certain applications in order to fulfill their responsibilities.

4. Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 Identifying Participants In ICBS, an “Organization” represents any of the following units of business: –Business Group –Legal Entity –Purchasing Organization –Sales Organization –Cache (Warehouse) –3 rd Party Logistics

5. Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 Mapping Roles to Organizations A Role is the part played by an organization in the network. ICBS supports the following organization roles: –Hub – there is only one Hub per organization. –Enterprise = cache system as a whole –Buyer = our customers that purchase products –Seller = who we buy our products from –Carrier = who moves our products to destination –Node = where physical inventory is located. Each cache is a node.

6. Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 6 NWCG ICBS Participant Model Default (Hub) NWCG (Enterprise, Buyer, Seller) –Caches (Nodes) –Customers (Buyers) –Suppliers (Sellers) –3PL Providers (Carriers)

7. Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 7 Lesson 2: Summary In this lesson, you should have learned that: –Participant Modeling is a method of defining relationships between organizations in an extended supply chain network –ICBS-R supports the following organization roles: Hub Enterprise Buyer Seller Carrier Node

8. Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 8 Questions?