Introduction

The integration between Award Management and Vendor Management bridges the gap between the two solutions and provides contracting personnel with the ability to interact with vendors about awards. When enabled, this integration allows contracting officers to see vendor messages within the Award record summary.

System Requirements

This section details the minimum requirements your system must meet to set up the VM integration.

• Appian version 24.2 or greater
• Award Management 2.0.0 or greater
• Vendor Management 1.5.0 or greater

Setting up the Vendor Management Integration

To utilize this integration, you need to generate an API key in the same environment that you imported your Vendor Management application into. Please note that if your Vendor Management application and Award Management application were imported into the same environment, you still need to generate an API key.

To create an API key:

1. In the target environment, log in as the deployment user.
2. Navigate to the Admin Console and select Web API Authentication.

3. From the API Key tab, click CREATE.

   

4. In the Description field, add a unique description for the API key.
5. Click the icon next to the Service Account field to create a new service account.
6. Enter amintegration in the Username field.

7. In the Groups field, enter AS VM Service Accounts for AM Access to add it to the appropriate group.

   

8. Click CREATE to apply the new service account to the API key.
9. Click CREATE to create the new API key and copy and save it to use in the next section.
10. Navigate to the environment where the Award Management application was imported.
11. Go to Appian Designer > Applications and select AS AM Full Application.
12. Under Object Type, select Connected System.
13. Select AS AM CS Vendor Management .
14. Find the Value field and click the Clear link.
15. Paste the API key you generated in step 9 in the cleared Value field.
16. In the Base URL field, enter the URL of the environment where Vendor Management was imported in the following format: https://sample-url.com/suite/webapi/

17. Click SAVE.