VENDOR PORTAL Version .5.0 – 11/11/2014

User Manual for access and operational procedures for the use of Vendor Portal

I. LOG IN

1. Access the following link with your pre-assigned username and password

http://www.jamcointl.com/reportes/supplier/index.asp

2. In the login screen you will capture your pre-assigned User Name and Password. System

will ask to renew your password with the following policies:

At least 1 capital letter

At least 1 lowercase letter

At least 1 number

Length 6-8 characters

3. Your password will be renewed every 30 days, or 15 days of inactivity.

4. The features that you must have in your browser for Vendor Portal to work properly

Cookies must be enabled in your browser

Javascript must be enabled in your browser

Popup windows must be allowed for the following address: (www.jamcointl.com)

5. The following screen will appear when renewing your password for the first time:

6. At the time of login, the legend "Your account needs to be renewed, please assign a new

password for your account" will appear.

7. You must capture your username and capture your new password and confirmation with

password policies described above.

8. Once this information updated press the button “SING IN” to access Vendor Portal.

9. After accessing Vendor Portal for the first time, your password renewal request within 30

days or such time exceeds 15 days of inactivity.

10. You will then access the main screen of the Vendor Portal where you can make

transactions with Purchase Orders.

11. Top of home screen shows supplier name as well as its user, the last access to the Vendor

Portal.

12. The following modules or options will be displayed on the Vendor Portal homepage

AVAILABLE PURCHASE ORDERS

1. A list of open Purchase Orders which are available to create your shipment will be

displayed. This option will display 5 records and you can scroll through the list to display

all PO's available.

2. A PO Filter option is also available to search by a specific PO.

3. The columns displayed in this section are:

PO (PURCHASE ORDER ISSUED BY LOWE’S MEXICO)

SUPPLIER NO (YOUR SUPPLIER CODE)

SUPPLIER NAME (YOUR COMPANY NAME)

LATEST SHIP DATE (“SHIP PO BY” DATE)

ACTION (LIST OF ACTION OPTIONS)

4. ACTION column allows operations or actions from the drop down list below:

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A. CREATE NEW SHIPMENT

5. This option will allow you to create a new shipment.

6. Begin by selecting a single PO to create a shipment.

7. Select “Create New Shipment” from the ACTION menu

You may capture the following fields if available and fields are open for future updates.

Carrier

Trailer

B / L No

Shipment Date

Weight (lbs)

Pallets

Invoice

Invoice Date

8. After completing the required information, click on the “Submit” button or alternatively

“Cancel” the capture of a new shipment.

B. VIEW PURCHASE ORDER DETAIL

9. This option will allow you to view details of the PO when trying to add a shipment.

Displayed columns are:

# (ITEM LINE)

PURCHASE ORDER (PURCHASE ORDER NUMBER)

ITEM (LOWE’S SKU NUMBER)

DESCRIPTION (PRODUCT DESCRIPTION)

QTY TO SHIP (QUANTITY ORDERED)

UNIT MEASURE (SKU SHIPPING UNIT OF MEASURE)

UNIT PRICE (SKU UNIT PRICE)

COUNTRY ORIGIN (SKU COUNTRY OF ORIGIN)

LOCATION (STORE NUMBER)

LOCATION TYPE (STORE TYPE)

PACKING METHOD

C. ADD TO EXISTING SHIPPING CONTROL

10. This option allows you to associate more open POs to an existing Shipping Control

already created.

11. Select the PO you want to add to an existing Shipping Control.

12. Select the desired Shipping Control and assign the invoice number and invoice date.

13. Select “Submit” to update Shipping Control.

SHIPPING CONTROL CREATED - OPEN

1. This section allows you to view a list of all shipping controls created and open for

shipping.

2. The columns displayed in this section are:

PO #

SUPPLIER NO

CARRIER

B / L NO

TRAILER

WEIGHT

BUNDLES

INVOICE

INVOICE DATE

STATUS

ACTION

3. Shipment with STATUS "O" means the shipment is still open. You can make

modifications, additions and/or deletions during this phase.

4. The ACTION menu enables you to select the desired action as needed:

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A. EDIT SHIPMENT

5. This section allows you to update/modify shipment header information only.

6. Select “Submit” once fields are updated or “Cancel” to keep current information.

B. ASSIGN PALLET ID

7. This section allows you to edit any line item ready for shipping.

8. The following information will be displayed:

# (ITEM LINE)

PURCHASE ORDER (LOWE’S PURCHASE ORDER)

ITEM (LOWE’S PART NUMBER)

VPN (VENDOR PART NUMBER)

TYPE LOC (STORE NUMBER)

LOC (STORE TYPE)

DESCRIPTION (PRODUCT DESCRIPTION)

PO QTY (QUANTITIES ORDERED IN PO)

QTY TO SHIP (SHIP QUANTITY) OPEN FIELD FOR SHIPPING QTY – (This field allows for piece quantity confirmation and/or

corrections based available shipping quantities. Does not

allow for shipping over)

UNIT MEASURE (SKU SHIPPING UNIT OF MEASURE) OPEN FIELD FOR UOM CHANGE – (This field allows for Unit of Measure

confirmation and/or corrections)

UNIT PRICE (SKU UNIT PRICE)

COUNTRY ORIGIN (SKU COUNTRY OF ORIGIN) OPEN FIELD FOR COO CHANGE – (This field allows for Country of Origin

confirmation and/or corrections)

PALLET ID (PALLET LABEL WITH PO DATA) You must select

the same Pallet Number for all POs that will be combined in

that Pallet. Pallet ID Barcode will contain all POs data in that

assigned pallet.

If an Item is mixed in several Pallets, select the “Multi” option

and type the Qty. of pcs. for each Pallet number.

MXHTS (MEXICO HARMONIZED TARIFF CODE)

NOM COMPLIANCE (NOM REQUIREMENTS)

9. Once you edit the information in the fields allowed, select the SAVE button to save the

information, or CANCEL to keep current information.

10. UPDATE button to refresh the detail information.

C. EDIT INVOICE INFORMATION

11. This option allows you to update Invoice Number and/or Invoice Date when creating

your Shipment.

12. Select the SUBMIT button to save the information or CANCEL to undo.

D. PREVIEW INVOICE

13 This option allows you to view a preview of the commercial invoice.

14. You can also view the CERTIFICATE OF ORIGIN (NAFTA) Certificate per Shipment

E. UPLOAD DOCUMENTS

15. This section is to upload documents associated with the shipment, you can attach .TIFF

and/or .PDF type documents and these will be displayed on Documents Available

section.

16. These documents remain stored as reference and may be disposes at any time.

F. PRINT PALLETS ID’S

17 You can print the pallet ID according to its configuration pallet id provided. Pallet ID

Label will show:

Final Location

Channel

Final City Name

Pallet ID Number

Supplier Name

Barcode information with pallet id, the detail of your PO

Number of Pallets

Shipping Date

Delivery Address

18 DELETE SHIPMENT

19 This option allows us to delete a shipment. This option is very important to be sure you

actually want to delete because it detaches and deletes the PO's shipment number.

Note: The PO's will remain available to associate to another shipment number.

20 FINALIZE SHIPMENT

21 This option allows us to terminate the shipment. You must select this option if you have

already finished creating your shipment. This is when the status changes from being O

(Open) to F (Finalized).

Note: All fields in the Header Section must be captured for completion or finalizing of

the Shipment

SHIPPING CONTROL CREATED – FINALIZED

1. In this section you can view a list of shipping controls that are created and finalized, It

will show all shipments already worked on and ready to be shipped out.

2. The columns displayed in this section are:

PO #

SUPPLIER NO

CARRIER B / L NO

TRAILER

WEIGHT

BUNDLES

INVOICE

INVOICE DATE

STATUS

ACTION

3. STATUS column "F" which means that the shipment is completed

4. The ACTION column enables us to Re-Open shipment for editing:

A. RE-OPEN SHIPMENT

5. This option allows us to reactivate the finalized shipment changing status to open again.

By selecting this option means that you will make changes to your shipment.

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