Creating a Manufacturer in the Private Catalog

You can create a Manufacturer and add it to the Technopedia Private Catalog. Creating a Manufacturer is the first step in creating and adding new software and hardware products to the Technopedia Private Catalog.

To create a manufacturer in the private catalog:

1. On the User Console, use the Browse drop-down and select By Manufacturer in order to navigate to the Browse Manufacturers screen.
2. Click the Create Manufacturer button in order to open the Add Manufacturer dialog.

Browse Manufacturers screen

3. Add detailed information about the Manufacturer in the text entry fields provided. Click More to extend the dialog for additional entries of detailed information. Click Submit to save the information.

Add Manufacturer dialog

4. The manufacturer information is added to the Technopedia Private Catalog. In addition, the Manufacturer number is incremented and a green Private label appears, indicating that this entry has been added to the Private Catalog.

Manufacturer added to the Private Catalog