General
This page provides a Beam supplier with a two options to add his Beam to the Multi-Supplier Inventory. The first option is to add Beam offerings individually. This section also lets a supplier edit or delete individual offerings. The second option involves uploading an Excel file containing descriptions of your Beam offerings. Beam offerings in the uploaded file is added automatically. After Beam Offerings are added, new Offerings are sent to buyers who have signed up to
Receive
Beam Offerings by email.
Individual Beam Offerings
The form is used to add information describing your Beam Offering.
The Type, Dimensions, Pieces, Description, Price, Tag No and Location fields are used to describe each of your Beam offerings. The Type, Dimensions and Location are required fields. Dimensions is in inches and can be specified as a decimal or fraction. Location is where the Beam is physically located. The city and state abbreviation (or city and province abbreviation, if Canada) is separated by a comma. Units for the Price, unless otherwise identified, is US$ per CWT. Any information about your Beam that is not specific to the other fields goes in the Description field.
Multiple Beam Offerings
A Beam supplier can also add, edit and remove Beam offerings by uploading an Excel spreadsheet containing descriptions of his Beam offerings. Each offering is described on a single row. Steel Spider reads the file a row at a time and adds the offerings to our Inventory automatically. The location and order of columns containing the data about each offering determines how the file is processed. The supplier provides a file with the layout defined by the supplier. This supplier defined layout file is usually a file that the supplier is already preparing or is easily exported from the suppliers inventory database. It is usually an Excel file. Under certain circumstances we can handle a text file or an Adobe .pdf file.
Supplier Specified Column Layout Excel File (or Text File) - Automatic Data Entry Process
If you are considering using this Automatic Data Entry Process you need to
Register first and then attach your Beam inventory file to
John@steelspider.com. We need to set-up the site to recognize the layout and other information about your file before you an use this. There is no charge to set this up and we provide a free trial period so you can evaluate using this method for adding your Beam Offerings to the Inventory.
The file format can be Excel but in some cases we can handle Text, Word or Adobe PDF. Send what you use internally. We will test the processing of the file on the site so we can recommend the simplest way to add your Beam and walk you through the process. If your company uses codes or abbreviations, such as for location or grades, let us know what the codes represent and we can set up the site to recognize these and replace them with alternative terms that describe your Beam. You can keep the codes in your file and will not need to convert them. This makes it possible for us to handle your inventory data without you having to do much "clean up" of the data. Using this method of providing your Beam offerings also lets us do more to tailor how your offerings appear and provide more information than is available with the other methods. For example if your have pictures of your Beam offering on your website, we can include a link to the applicable picture with the offering.
On this page you can add your Beam offerings to the Inventory along with the Beam of other suppliers so that buyers can search for needed Beam. You can also change or remove your Offerings in the Inventory here.
Buyers will receive an email notification of any new Beam offerings added to the Inventory if they have signed up to
Receive Beam Offerings for Beam. In
Receive Beam Offerings a buyer can specify which Beam Offerings he wants to be notified about by email by specifying type, dimension or distance requirements.
We have provided two methods for adding your Beam Offerings to the searchable Inventory. The first is to add each Beam Offering separately. The second involves uploading an Excel file to add multiple Beam Offerings automatically using a layout of your choosing. These methods are briefly described below and described in more detail in the
Show Help for this Page link above.
You need to periodically update your Beam offerings to ensure that your Beam being advertised is still available. If you
haven't returned to this page to check on your beam for 30 days we will email you a reminder to update your beam or
confirm your beam's continued availability. If no confirmation is received, we will remove your beam.
Add/Change/Remove Multiple Beam Offerings - Automatic Data Entry
Some suppliers may find it easier and faster to automate the process of providing your Beam offerings. To add your Beam Offerings you upload an Excel file with information describing each Beam on a single row. The uploaded file is processed and automatically added to the Inventory. The Layout of the uploaded file needs to be defined so the site knows where the appropriate information can be found. Our goal if for you to provide a file with a layout that is easiest for you to prepare. We tailor the automation process to handle your layout. A walk-through describing the options for handling Multiple Beam Offerings is provided in
Show Help for this Page above. To add, edit or remove your Beam Offerings when you upload subsequent files we remove the Beam from a previous file and replace it with the Beam in the current file.
Below is a listing of the files that have been setup to use with the Automatic Data Entry process.
When you upload your Beam here, only the Beam from your file will be displayed in the grid above so you can edit or delete individual items. A button will appear at the top right of the grid that will let you view and edit all your Beam on the site if other methods were used to add Beam to the Inventory.
Select the File that you will be providing.
Notes applicable to the selected file:
Expected File Layout:
Press
Browse and select the file on your computer
Upload the file for processing.