Who has experience implementing Procurement Punchout with Facility or Construction Vendors (Grainger

Unknown

We are in the beginning stages of planning to turn on, and begin utilizing Procurement Punchout in our Lawson V10 module. Its mainly to be used by our maintenance and construction projects teams, thus those types of vendors. Our question is that of asking your experience in implementing, project recommendations, consultants, etc. We are specifically looking for approach to vendors, and possible consultants. I do not want to inundated with sales pitches, but Infor SCM consultants are over a year out- we would like to turn it on sooner than later. 

The only updates I see on the topics for those already utilizing, and over three years old. Thoughts from the community?

kvargas

I think that we just implemented Grainger within the last year.  We already had Punchout set up for other vendors so didn't use any consultants.  

Unknown

https://community.infor.com/discussion/comment/56854#Comment_56854

Well, its good to know Grainger can do it. If you have any instructions from when it was done in the past, it would be great if you felt like sharing.

Unknown

Yes, Grainger is one of the vendors that worked with Infor to ensure punch-out would work.  there are 6 things that we addressed during setup and most is in the install guide. we had other things that we had to overcome to make things easier, like defaulting an item account code, ignoring line comments from punch-out, Batch PO processing of special items types by vendor to name a few.  
1. firewall - corporate firewall traffic for the initial contact to vendor site from Lawson server was blocked.
2. certificate- WebSphere needs to pull vendor cert or manual load and be rebooted afterward.
3. rqc_config.xml - add entries from the punch-out template for the vendor and must match ed41 and vendor  provided id & password 
4. Deploy punch-out service to WebSphere 
5. Add vendor URL to Trusted Site List on desktops
6. ED41,ED43,ED45 punch-out and user setup