Buying organizations store some statements around compliance categories such as Human Resources, Environmental impact, etc. in MeRLIN so that such statements can be included in reports in the future.
- Organizational policies are defined by the User and stored in MeRLIN.
- These policies are to be accepted in the Interested Supplier Form, Supplier Registration Submission. Also, the suppliers are to accept these policies while logging into the Supplier Portal for the first time and every time the policy is revised.
- Only the latest version of the statement of every Policy Statement type will be active.
- Similar to the Supplier Policy Statement, each of these Statements can be defined in more than one language.
Menu Path: Supply Chain Compliance >> Organizational Policy Statements
For any policy type, at a time only one policy will be active for the selected Organization Unit.
Supplier Acceptance Status Report: Ability to get a report of Supplier Users who have accepted or rejected Organizational Policy Statements in the form of a report. Here is a sample:
Available Actions
- Create New From: Create a new Organizational Policy Statement from existing policy statements
- View: View the selected Policy Statement
- Make as Deactivate: Make the existing policy inactive
- Change Supplier Acceptance: Update the Supplier Acceptance criteria. Only if the Supplier acceptance is required then the supplier will be asked to accept the policies.
- Associated Categories: Categories associated with the selected policy will appear here, the policies can be mapped to categories while defining Category Definition.