• Fonterra Procurement

Fonterra Procurement

Find key information and resources, including supply terms and conditions, SAP Ariba user guides, as well as frequently asked questions.

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We take great care of every drop of milk, from the beginning, and through every value chain step to our customers and consumers.  It’s our dedication and care that enables us to produce safe and high-quality food, and our dairy know-how and innovation capability mean we can do amazing things with our milk to enhance people’s lives.

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User Guides and FAQs

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SAP Business Network FAQs

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How to Create a Supplier Account on the SAP Business Ariba Network

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Creating an SAP Business Network Account

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Homepage Layout

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Customise Workbench

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Account Overview and Customise Widget

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Configure Routing Notifications

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How to change your SAP Account Administrator

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Managing Multiple Accounts (Account Hierarchy)

This guide provides some questions and answers and basic trouble shooting for things like creating an account, login and password resets, login errors messages, updating your email addresses and usernames, as well as how to find your SAP Business Network ID Number (ANID). 

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SAP Ariba Account User FAQs

As the administrator of your organisation’s SAP Ariba Network account, you play an important part in keeping your company’s account running smoothly.

Your responsibilities include:

  • Handling account configuration and management
  • Serving as the primary point of contact for users with questions or problems
  • Creating/modifying roles and users for their account
  • Resetting a User’s Password
  • Editing Customer Assignments
  • Transferring the account administration
  • Role account configuration

The administrator role is automatically linked to the username and login entered during account setup and registration. If necessary, however, you can reassign the role to another person at a later stage.

A user is created by the administrator and has exactly one role, which corresponds to the user’s real job responsibilities. Each user is responsible for updating his or her personal user information.

See the Ariba® Network for Suppliers Administrator Quick-Start Guide for detailed information on the following topics:

  • Accessing and changing former administrator's account
  • Transfer the account administration role
  • Reassigning admin account to a co-worker
  • Update your account information.

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Information Required for Vendor Registration

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Completing the Vendor Registration Questionnaire Guide

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Completing the Vendor Registration Questionnaire Guide - China

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Completing a Vendor Registration Form

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Vendor Registration FAQ’s

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Insurance Questionnaire Definition Fact Sheet

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Completing the Insurance Questionnaire Guide

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Completing an Insurance Certificate Questionnaire

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Accepting the Trading Relationship Request

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Standard Account Recording

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Enterprise Account Recording

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Order Confirmations

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Create an Order Confirmation (Header Level)

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Create an Order Confirmation (Line-Item Level)

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Create a Ship Notice

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Goods Receipt Notice

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Create a Standard Invoice against a Purchase Order

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Create an Invoice

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Create an Invoice against a Contract

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Create a Contract Invoice

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Review, Save or Submit an Invoice

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Copy an Existing Invoice

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Modify a Returned Invoice

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Configure the Tax Menu in an Invoice

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Add Tax to Line Items en masse in an Invoice

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Invoice Statuses

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Create an Invoice Report

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Review Invoice History

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Create a Credit Memo against an Invoice

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Fonterra Enterprise Account Functional Training

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Fonterra Standard Account Functional Training

Access a range of user guides and frequently asked questions for additional support for participating in Fonterra Sourcing Events.  ​

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Create an Ariba Account

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Participating in an RFI event

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Participating in an RFX event

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Signing your contract via Docusign

For step-by-step instructions on how to participate in a RFI or RFX Event, or sign documents using DocuSign please refer to the detailed User Guides listed above.

This guide provides some questions and answers and basic trouble shooting around participating in Fonterra Sourcing Events.

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Sourcing Event FAQs

Tactical Sourcing

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Responding to a Request for Quote (RFQ) - Blue Collar Worker Request

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Responding to a Request for Quote (RFQ) demo video

The Helpful Resources section outlines key information like our Supply Terms and Conditions, and our Sustainability Code of Practice. ​

Fonterra’s Responsible Procurement

Fonterra Supplier Sustainability Code of Practice

Terms & Conditions

Food Safety and Quality System

Contractor Safety Management Help

Withholding Tax Form for the USA

Static Catalogue Upload Process

Static Catalogue Excel Template

PunchOut Catalogue Upload Process

PunchOut Catalogue Excel Template

Yes.  As a prerequisite for participation in Fonterra Sourcing Events, all vendors will need to have an SAP Business Network account and be a registered user. All selected vendors will need to have, at a minimum, a free standard account to transact electronically with Fonterra.

Vendors incur no costs to create a new SAP Business Network Standard Account and participate in any Fonterra sourcing event.

You may incur account usage fees if you set up an SAP Business Network Enterprise Account. For full list of functionalities and additional info, please visit the SAP Business Network accounts and pricing page.

You will need to set up an SAP Business Network account or link your existing account to Fonterra. You can refer to our User Guides for step-by-step instructions.

Yes. This is the preferred method for transacting with Fonterra in the future.

Yes. We recommend you attach a PDF to help support the process & speed up approval.

Although not mandatory, you can choose to provide order confirmations or ship notices.  

Note:  

  • The order confirmation is the only way to manage price discrepancies. 
  • If the price is incorrect, update the price in the order confirmation. 
  • A Change Order must be processed by Fonterra to accept the adjustment(s).

Fonterra will continue to use their current method of communication with our vendors. There is currently no expectation that the vendor uses the SAP portal for communication. For price variances, these can be managed via the order confirmations. 

In this scenario you would have two options:  

  1. It is recommended to create a login for every user who will be transacting on the network. You can also create one per department. 
  2. Only those employees who need to take action on Purchase Orders received need to create logins. Note that you can as many users as required on your account. 

The vendor can have two AN ID accounts if they wish. The one they do the TRR with MUST be the one use for trading with Fonterra. If they want SLP to be different that is fine. However, if the SLP one is wrong they can also change it from their end. 

There will be a transition period as your organisation becomes an enabled Vendor. What this means:

Once your organisation is enabled, any active Purchase Orders existing prior to enablement can continue to be invoiced via the current invoicing method, as per historic processes, until the Purchase Order is fulfilled and invoiced.

Once your organisation is enabled, all new transactions will be on the SAP Business Network. Any new Purchase Orders will be sent on, and must be invoiced, via the Network.

Once all legacy Purchase Orders are closed, the expectation is for all Purchase Orders and other transacting documentation to be sent via the Network.

When you begin transacting with us across the SAP Business Network it is likely that we have existing purchase orders open that we will continue to process via historic channels until the original terms of each purchase order has been complete. ​

What this means for Remittance is you will receive two advices and payments; one for invoices received via historic channels and another for invoices received via the SAP Business Network. The remittance advice emailed from the Network (AribaNetworkAdmin@ariba.com) will include a link to your SAP Business Account to view the advice and payment details.

We are committed to paying our Vendors to the agreed payment terms, which is when Vendors should expect payment. The reason that the Pay Date differs from your agreed payment terms (i.e., 20th day of the month, one month following the invoice date) is due to previous customisations in our SAP system. We are currently working on a solution which will be implemented in the near future. In the interim, the Pay Date will always be overestimated and provided the invoice meets all required criteria will be paid to the agreed payment terms.

Vendor Risk Management

Fonterra is proud of its strong relationships with organisations who supply us with valuable products and services to help us achieve our strategic goals. It’s a great example of our purpose ‘tatou tatou - good together’ in action.

Globally we engage with over 10,000 vendors, and we are reliant on them to deliver our objectives.

In 2022 we designed a vendor vetting and engagement framework, enabled by an online portal, to help us better understand and manage the risks associated with our vendors.

The new framework, supported by the online portal and a robust business process, allows us to assess and manage our vendors in a more efficient and consistent way, both during initial selection and on a proactive ongoing basis.

For our vendors, the goal is to provide them with easy-to-use systems that supports a transparent assessment with clear requirements and good management processes throughout the entire engagement lifecycle. For our employees, it allows us to comprehensively cover the broad range of topics that need to be considered and focus on the most relevant and highest risk topics for each given vendor.

The topics covered include regulatory compliance, food safety and quality, health and safety, cyber security, environmental performance and working conditions.

Our Third-Party Risk Management framework will be used with all new vendors in New Zealand, and gradually over the next three years, we aim to expand coverage globally.
 

Vendor Risk Management Process


Maintaining strong relationships with our vendors is important to us, as is fulfilling our promises to customers and meeting the requirements of regulatory bodies. A good understanding of your business helps us to:

1. Assess the entity risks of our vendors or third-parties

2. Improve our management of vendor-related risk, and

3. Act to reduce Fonterra's risk accordingly.

Our vendor registration process is designed to help you share information with us about your organisation through an online vendor portal.