Here is a step-by-step guide to onboarding as a supplier in the Univar Solutions community if you have received an invitation to onboard as a user.

This is an exceptional process, indicating that your company profile has been utilized to validate the Univar Solutions community. Consequently, you will have access to certain historical information starting from the summer of 2024, prior to the launch of Streamliner.

1. General.

Streamliner is a B2B platform designed to facilitate collaboration among companies in the inbound supply chain. For more information, visit our website or consult our knowledge base.

A user in your company will be invited to onboard your company further in the streamliner community of Univar Solutions. Your company account has been pre-configured based on your VAT number to validate recent order flows. Now, you can collaborate and be involved as a supplier for Univar Solutions.

This miniguide describes the following steps

• Invitation as a user with role ‘Company Owner’
• Accept the collaboration as supplier in the Univar Solutions community
• Invite other users
• Support the flow of goods by creating your DC or factory(s). This is critical before you can collaborate with your carriers
• Invite your carriers
• Decide to work with a manual flow or an automated flow to involve your carriers

This miniguide is one of the 4 mini guides that are available to support your use of the Streamliner platform. Read more in the following mini guides

• Booking an appointment to deliver goods
• Involving a carrier and follow-up
• Collaborating on the reception of goods

Prerequisites

• Please be sure to trust emails that are sent from Streamliner.cloud, just whitelist the domain streamliner.cloud or add notifications@streamliner.cloud as a safe sender. 
• Have the VAT N° of your company and those from your carrier companies at hand
• Gather the emails of colleagues who need to be involved.
• Allocate 10 to 15 minutes of your time.

Wish you all the best,  happy reading and welcome to Streamliner, the intuitive collaboration slot booking platform. 

2. The invitation. 

 2.1.Respond on the invitation in your inbox. 

You will receive an email titled ‘Hey [Your Name], join Streamliner!’ inviting you to collaborate. This collaboration is free, with the subscription covered by Univar Solutions.

Your company is configured with a supplier role in the Univar Solutions community. 

The supplier role enables you to

• Follow up all purchase orders that are placed 
• Invite your carrier companies, they will book the appointments to deliver the goods if you wish, with all transparency and visibility for you in real time. 
• Book an appointment for self-delivery
• Communicate with Univar Solutions for any question regarding this order or regarding the delivery
• Have a performance dashboard available to track yours and carrier performance. 
• And a lot more to discover ...

In the next steps, we will verify the configuration of your company and setup the first user of your company on the Streamliner platform. 

2.2. Finalize your personal user account

You may safely click on the provided hyperlink in the mail.  Streamliner.cloud is a trusted domain. 

By clicking on the button ‘Active your account’, you are redirected to a screen to complete your personal user profile. We recommend personal user accounts to make your work visible and accountable. 

Provide the necessary information, set a password, and agree to the Cookie and Privacy Policy. Password and email are case sensitive! 

The action ‘Complete your profile’ is enabled as soon as all required information is available. 

After logging in, you will see a screen similar to this. 

By clicking on the community of Univar Solutions, you join their collaboration platform. 

Congrats, collaboration with Univar Solutions can start. 

Now go back to the main menu by clicking on your company name in the top left corner

3. Verify your company 

Click on ‘Manage Account’ and verify your company name and it’s VAT N°. This is how Univar Solutions and your carriers will see your company. 

Verify or complete the address of your company in the ‘Billing details’. No billing is involved, no credit card needed. 

Adding your company logo is optional but recommended for better visibility.

4. Support the flow of goods by creating your DC or factory. Required step. 

4.1. General

Streamliner supports the sustainability and the transparency of the supply chain. 

Streamliner gives the users a view on the different locations that are used in the supply chain.

This information can be used to quickly validate addresses to pick-up locations for a carrier and to validate the time zones of the users/locations. On a longer term, you can use this information to visualize the different transportation flows that are in use, even with the volumes between the different locations to optimize your flows. And if you wish, we can share this information with you for the CO2 calculations. 

We strongly advise to add the different locations in your own supply chain that are involved in your relationship as supplier with the Univar Solutions. This step is required if you involve carrier companies; 

4.2. Supply Chain. 

In the menu option ‘Supply Chain’ you can add the location(s). 

You can make this as complex as you want, but start as simple as possible. Just add your location to the root folder, if you have only 1 or 2 locations that need to be shared as pick-up location with a type ‘Factory’ or ‘Distribution Center’

Every location has a name, a type, an address that has to be found by google maps, a telephone number and a switch to indicate if Yard management will be active Yes or No.

Enabling Yard management, enables the functionality to assign pick-up locations when you pass transport orders to a carrier. You can not assign a transport order to a carrier or to an internal logistics department if there’s no pick-up location defined. 

if you need pick up locations the switch has to be set to on. Other settings like ERP preference time slot, time windows, days open opening hours are not important for pick up location. Just skip these at the moment. 

5. Fine tune your profile and invite extra users.

5.1. Your profile

You can update your profile by clicking on the top right icon and selecting ‘My profile’. Add information like an avatar to improve your experience. This information is visible to carrier companies and Univar Solutions.

5.2. Invite additional users.

Please give every user who will collaborate with your carrier companies and/or who will follow-up the received orders and collaborate to deliver, a personal login. Making it personal improves the experience and gives a clear responsibility for everyone to contribute. 

Inviting extra users is done via the menu ‘users’. At least the name, personal email and role are required fields. The explanation of the different roles is found on the knowledge base. But add at least 1 with the role ‘Company Owner’

See our knowledge base for all user management articles. 

Every user that you invite will receive an invitation in her/his mailbox to join the Streamliner platform, exactly like you received. 

6. Invite your carriers. 

Streamliner is a B2B platform that fosters collaboration in the inbound supply chain. Invite your carriers to join the Univar Solutions community as companies with the carrier role. Do not invite them as users in your company.

Carriers will manage their own companies, emails, and receive transport orders or delivery notes from you to book slots. You only need their VAT number or an email from a responsible party if the carrier company hasn't onboarded yet.

The miniguide describes the following steps: 

• Invite your carriers to participate in the community
• Create a transport order and assign to a carrier
• Follow up if carrier takes the initiative to book a slot

In the next chapter, chapter 7, we explain how to automate the step to create a transport order if needed. 

7.  Information flow from you to your carrier. 

Invited carrier companies do not have access to your orders. Visibility on purchase orders is restricted to you and Univar Solutions. To enable carriers to book delivery slots, you need to create a 'Package' (delivery note, ASN, DESADV, or transport order) containing delivery instructions.

This step can be automated in Streamliner in various ways:

• Integrate the delivery notes from your IT system with Streamliner
• Automate the creation of  a package with default settings if you work with only one carrier.

Please contact the support of Streamliner to discuss the possibilities if needed. We are there to help you. 

And once again, welcome aboard!