What's Coming in Supplier One?

Updated 2 months ago ​by Merch Transformation Change Management

Here's a quick peek of some exciting features coming soon or recently released in Supplier One. Many of these are the result of feedback you have shared about your supplier experience.

Coming Soon Exclusively in Supplier One

Variant Management

• Currently: Suppliers have to work with Merchants to manage variant items that appear together on a Walmart.com product page.
• The solution: Suppliers will have the ability to manage variant items in Supplier One. While you can currently view variants in the Catalog, you will now be able to edit variant attributes directly in the platform. Or, you can download a spreadsheet from the Maintenance Hub to manage one or more variant groups at a time.
• The benefits: Managing variant items in Supplier One reduces the time you spend sending changes to Merchants and following up with them to make sure the changes are implemented correctly on Walmart.com. You can track variant management submissions in the Submissions Manager and take action if needed to correct any errors.

Catalog

Maintenance Hub

New Growth Opportunities

• Currently: Suppliers have little visibility into how you can boost conversion on Walmart.com.
• The solution: New growth opportunities will help you identify potential ways to turn a customer's shopping experience into a purchase. These opportunities will include actions (e.g., enrolling items for reviews or proposing events on Walmart.com).
• The benefits: As digital shopping continues to grow, these opportunities will provide insights and actions to help you convert shoppers on Walmart.com.

Import Order Visibility and Acknowledgment

• Currently: Suppliers have to navigate to other platforms to view and acknowledge import orders.
• The solution: The Order Management page in Supplier One will include visibility to all import orders and allow you to acknowledge them. This reduces the need to navigate to other platforms.
• The benefits: Having visibility to all orders and the ability to acknowledge import orders in Supplier One saves you time and provides a unified experience that connects the different capabilities you use as part of doing business with Walmart in the U.S. market.

Available Now Exclusively in Supplier One

API Submission Visibility

• Previously: Supplier API submissions for item setup, item maintenance, and DSV inventory management could not be seen or tracked by Walmart business teams. 
• The solution: We will include all Item and Inventory API submissions in the Supplier One Submission Manager. This will provide the submission details, including whether the submission was sent by a Solution Provider, the status of all items in the submission, and other relevant details. 
• The benefits: This functionality will enable suppliers to fix errors/issues quickly by unifying submission visibility into a single location and providing details on API submissions in a familiar format. API submission visibility will include insights into updates requested by Walmart Associates.
• Want to learn more about APIs?: If you're interested in automating your workflows with Walmart APIs, click here to view the functionalities we currently offer and the Solution Providers who currently work with our APIs.

Ship Node Submission Visibility

• Previously: While you could submit DSV inventory and lag time maintenance, you had no visibility to the submission status.
• The solution: Supplier One now provides visibility to your DSV maintenance in the Submissions Manager. Click the Ship node tab to check the status of your DSV inventory and lag time submissions.
• The benefits: This visibility enables you to see if DSV maintenance submissions are processing, require action from a supplier or Walmart Associate, or complete. Click the dots under the Actions column to view more details.

February 2024

January 2024

Full Item Report

• Previously: You had to use Supplier Center to download the Full Item Report.
• The solution: You can now download the Full Item Report from the Products view of the Supplier One catalog. This report includes items that have active logistics configurations as well as current DSV inventory counts.
• The benefits: The Full Item Report allows you to download current DSV inventory counts in bulk. Previously, you had to use Supplier Center or download this data for one item at a time from the DSV Facility Overview in Supplier One.

December 2023

Consolidated Scorecard

• Previously: You had to navigate to multiple places to view key metrics for your business.
• The solution: The new scorecard view consolidates key metrics for in full, on time, and content quality on one page within Supplier One. The data includes the current score and target score, and you can view reports for each metric to learn more.
• The benefits: This consolidated scorecard helps you easily gauge business performance and provides quick access to view reports. Use these insights to determine actions that you can take to drive your current scores up to meet or surpass the target scores.

Home Page Enhancements

• Previously: The summary on your Home page showed open orders and info about Walmart Luminate, and your top tasks showed order-related alerts. You had to navigate to the return trends and items pages in Supplier One to gain insights into those areas of your business.
• The solution: The summary shows a snapshot of units returned (based on a month of data) so you can quickly see if further investigation is needed. Your top tasks now include specific item-related actions to help you prioritize item maintenance / setup submissions, quote items, item proposals, etc. Make sure to click the arrows to view all of your top tasks.
• The benefits: With Supplier One, our goal is to provide a unified experience that connects the different capabilities you use as part of doing business with Walmart. Providing visibility to units returned and item tasks on your Home page helps you prioritize which areas of your business to focus on.

October 2023

Owned Orders

• Previously: You navigated to multiple tools to gain visibility into your Walmart orders. If you have eCommerce DSV orders, you used Supplier Center. If you have Owned orders for eCommerce and Stores, you used NOVA.
• The solution: We are consolidating your top tools and workflows for Owned and DSV in a single platform so you no longer have to navigate to multiple tools to view your Walmart orders.
• The benefits: Visibility to Owned and/or DSV order management in Supplier One improves your user experience and reduces confusion on which tool to use and where to go if you need support. You can view all of your orders in one place.

Deductions

• Previously: The Accounts Payable Inquiry System (APIS) was the tool most suppliers used to gather remittance information. Deductions are adjustments that reduce the amount a supplier is paid as a result of pre-negotiated agreements (e.g., returns, excessive defectives, coops, post payment audit deductions).
• The solution: You can gain insights about deduction reasons and view details of all deductions in Supplier One. These details and insights can help you spot trends so you can decide if action is needed.
• The benefits: Providing insights about deductions in Supplier One reduces the need to navigate to APIS, making it easier for you to manage your business in one place.

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