VendorNet's client and vendor web-based training sessions cover a broad range of topics and accommodate novice to expert users. Every session is led by a VendorNet staff guru, and provides an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge and familiarity with all of the tools that VendorNet offers to improve supply chain processes and reduce costs.

RETAIL CLIENT WEBINARS

The Retail Client Webinars are exclusively for current VendorNet clients. These interactive sessions will help you fully leverage VendorNet's technology to improve operational efficiencies and communication with your third-party suppliers.

* The webinar schedule is updated monthly. A $99 per person, per webinar fee applies for all retail clients, and will be invoiced following the webinar.

Retail Client Webinar Schedule: (All webinars begin at 1:00 pm Eastern and will conclude by 2:30 pm Eastern)

Webinar Date	Registration Deadline	Session Description
Feb. 8	Feb. 6	VendorNet File Mapping 101 - A comprehensive review of how to utilize VendorNet's file mapping utility. This utility facilitates host system integration and allows for data exchange with vendors in their desired format. Review a sampling of file formats and learn how to read and build maps in VendorNet. This is an invaluable starter session for retailers wishing to manage system-to-system integration with vendors. Target Audience: IT personnel and users who have day-to-day responsibility for configuring dropship vendors. Register Now
Feb. 22	Feb. 20	Managing Dropship Vendors in VendorNet - This session outlines best practices for navigating through VendorNet on a daily/weekly basis to ensure vendors are performing their duties, and fulfilling your drop ship orders on a timely basis. Find out how to use the VendorNet screens and functions to help you detect problem situations with vendors in order to take corrective actions before the problem impacts service levels to your customers. A daily/weekly check list of activities, and a review of specific VendorNet reports for tracking drop ship orders, identifying exception conditions, and reviewing actual vendor performance will also be included. Target Audience: Management, IT, and Business Users (Customer Service/OPS) who have day-to-day responsibility of managing drop ship vendors. Register Now
Mar. 7	Mar. 5	Pending Buckets - Communicating and Resolving Order Exceptions - Learn how to identify problem orders and efficiently process the files including a review of a comprehensive list of possible error conditions and suggested solutions. Attendees will learn how to track an order when errors are ignored and not processed. Procedures for communicating with buyers and vendors and determining the root cause of an order exception will be discussed. This session will show you how to minimize problem orders in your Ship and Invoice files from vendors to avoid delayed ASNs to your warehouse or shipment updates to your order management system. Target Audience: : IT personnel and/or business users that have day-to-day responsibility of managing any errors in the the ship and invoice files received from vendors. Register Now
Mar. 21	Mar. 19	Using VendorNet’s Order Acknowledgement and Order Approval Buckets - This session will provide an overview of the numerous ways the Acknowledgement and Order Approval functions in VendorNet can be used. Topics include controlling when an order goes to the Acknowledgement bucket, restrictions on what changes a vendor can make, various system display options such as highlighting changes or only displaying changed items, email options, and controlling when your order management system is updated with the changes made in VendorNet. Best practices used by retailers and vendors in communicating order changes will be presented. Target Audience: Buyers/Planners involved in the order approval and modification process for stock or drop purchase orders and IT personnel who have day-to-day responsibility of managing drop ship vendors. Register Now
Apr. 11	Apr. 9	VendorNet Mapping 201 - Building on the starter session to VendorNet Mapper, this session discusses advanced features including field and record termination, combining and removing fields, manipulation of fields with scripts and functions, working with repeating records (looping), and using the Dictionary to store and retrieve data. Target Audience: IT personnel who have responsibility for mapping system-to-system vendors. Register Now
Apr. 25	Apr. 23	Using VendorNet's Email and Calendar Functions - A complete review of email set-up in VendorNet. Attendees will learn how to use the new email templates to simplify the set-up for new and existing vendor contacts. A complete list of all actions and conditions that can generate emails at both the individual order and group level will be provided including a review for all possible email recipients. Learn how to incorporate user-defined content into emails utilizing order data from VendorNet, and use the calendar to adjust the date that pending and delinquent emails are sent by defining working and non-working days. Target Audience: IT personnel and users who have day-to-day responsibility for configuring drop ship vendors. Register Now
May 9	May 7	VendorNet's Invoice Matching and Approval Functions - A detailed overview and demonstration of the Invoice Hold and Invoice Matching functions in VendorNet including the different payment options: Approval/Close, Approve/Open, Close, and Auto-Approve. The new Research bucket will also be reviewed, which allows you to segregate invoices with discrepancies that are in the process of being researched. Procedures for managing your international versus domestic vendor invoice payments will be compared and contrasted. Target Audience: Accounting personnel managing invoicing approval processes. Register Now

 

DROPSHIP VENDOR REFRESHER WEBINARS

Vendor Refresher Webinars are exclusively for dropship vendors that have already been trained on VendorNet, and are currently using VendorNet to process dropship orders with one or more VendorNet retailers. These sessions provide an opportunity for vendors to freshen up their knowledge of VendorNet functionality to work more efficiently and effectively with retailers.

Vendor Webinar Schedule: (All webinars begin at 1:00 pm Eastern and will conclude by 2:00 pm Eastern)

Webinar Date	Registration Deadline	Session Description
Feb. 15 Mar. 14 Apr. 18 May 16	Feb. 13 Mar. 12 Apr. 16 May 14	A VendorNet Refresher: Order Processing, Reports, and Comment Functions - A complete review of various shipping, invoicing, and printing options in VendorNet to help you gain operational efficiencies and improve revenue recognition cycles. Learn how to leverage reports and utilize the comment buckets to improve communication and compliance with your retail clients. Target Audience: Vendor users responsibile for processing dropship orders for VendorNet retailers. Register Now

These sessions are complimentary to VendorNet-enabled vendors who have been previously trained on VendorNet, and would like additional questions answered, or desire knowledge of advanced features.

STOCK PO VENDOR REFRESHER WEBINARS

Vendor Refresher Webinars are exclusively for Stock PO vendors that have already been trained on VendorNet, and are currently using VendorNet to process Stock PO orders with one or more VendorNet retailers. These sessions provide an opportunity for vendors to freshen up their knowledge of VendorNet functionality to work more efficiently and effectively with retailers.

Vendor Webinar Schedule: (All webinars begin at 1:00 pm Eastern and will conclude by 2:00 pm Eastern)

Webinar Date	Registration Deadline	Session Description
Feb. 16 Mar. 15 Apr. 19 May 17	Feb. 14 Mar. 13 Apr. 17 May 15	A VendorNet Refresher: Order Processing, Reports, and Comment Functions - A complete review of various shipping, invoicing, and printing options in VendorNet to help you gain operational efficiencies and improve revenue recognition cycles. Learn how to leverage reports and utilize the comment buckets to improve communication and compliance with your retail clients. Target Audience: Vendor users responsible for processing Stock PO orders for VendorNet retailers. Register Now

These sessions are complimentary to VendorNet-enabled vendors who have been previously trained on VendorNet, and would like additional questions answered, or desire knowledge of advanced features.