Certification compliance has three reports available to help you manage certification
contract compliance:
Assign employees to contracts
Contract compliance by product
Value added enhancement (VAE) certification status
Assign employees to contracts
The "Assign employees to contracts" report enables the Primary Relationship Contact (PRC) or Authorized Profile Administrator (APA) to assign employees and their certifications to a contract. It shows each employee, where they are assigned and allows updates to the employee's role. (In Asia Pacific and Europe, it is not necessary to assign employees to a contract – for contract compliance; all employees are counted toward all contracts. However, you will need to designate employees as either sales or technical.)
Only employees reported at locations with assigned contracts are displayed
in this section. If a certified employee (or any employee) is not shown on the
screen, the employee's contract compliance role (sales/technical) should
be updated via the employee profile.
Contract compliance by product
Contract compliance by product gives you the compliance status by contract.
Each product under that contractual IBM relationship can be reviewed in depth
to help the PRC/APA understand the certifications and employees who support
that contract. When a Business Partner holds more than one contractual IBM relationship,
the contract compliance report will only show those products that are authorized
for the specific contract. You should check all of the contract compliance reports
to ensure they meet the contractual requirements for all authorized products.
(Business Partners in Europe should check their contractual agreements to verify
that they meet the contractual requirements for the product sub-categories for
which they are authorized, e.g., System p low-end, System i high-end.)
Value added enhancement (VAE) certification status
"Value added enhancement (VAE) certification status report" allows you to view
the authorized VAEs and employee certifications that support and authorize the
VAE in spreadsheet format. (Please note, this option is not displayed for AP
or Business Partners in Europe.)
Navigation
To assign employees to contracts:
Select the "Assign employees to contracts" link
Use the checkboxes and radio buttons to assign candidates to their contractual
IBM relationship. There are three logical groupings:
Employees who are currently assigned to the selected agreement/relationship
have the boxes checked. If there are no checked boxes, no employees are
currently assigned to the agreement
Employees assigned to other agreements/relationships are listed next
Employees not assigned to any agreement or relationships are listed
last
To move an employee to the current agreement/relationship, simply check
the box. If you want to remove an employee from the current agreement/relationship,
remove the check from the box.
"Save"
You will be taken to a confirmation page and given a confirmation number
Please retain the confirmation number for all future inquiries on the transaction
Contract compliance by product
To view your compliances by product:
Select the "Compliance status by product" link
The list of compliance contracts will be visible in this screen. You are
able to view all contracts by product in the certification compliance report
summary table.
Value added enhancement (VAE) certification
To view Value added enhancement (VAE) certification:
Select the "VAE" link
An Excel spreadsheet will be visible in this screen. You are able to view
the employee, VAE compliance, certification, date awarded, date reported,
location, city state/province, VAE name and product group. (Please note, this
option is not displayed for Business Partners in Asia Pacific or Europe.)
