WebSphere Commerce stores hierarchies of member organizations. Individual users can be associated with member organizations and specific departments within these organizations. An organization can also be designated a buyer organization.
Buyer organization information is captured in order to facilitate the registration of a buyer with a supplier. For procurement systems, the specific information is captured in the PROCBUYPRF table. The PROCBUYPRF table captures any buyer identification from the procurement system as well as protocol and buyer specific information.
Note: The parameters captured from the procurement system are the requisitioning users ID and department name. Any other information required can be customized by extending the PROCBUYPRF table. WebSphere Commerce procurement system integration infrastructure only recognizes requisitioner_ id as an extrinsic parameter. This is given by the REQIDPARM column in PROCBUYPRF table. Any additional extrinsic parameters required by customers must be customized using the PROCBUYPRF table which is used to capture any buyer extrinsic, as well as any protocol and buyer specific profile information.