How to Submit Standardized Tier 2 (Supplier)

This guide will walk you through how to submit Standardized Tier 2 on the SupplierGateway platform. The client portal has identified you as a Prime. As a Prime, this means that you either have had past or have current business with the client portal and they are requesting that you log in and report your Tier 2 expenditures on their Supplier Diversity portal. To get started you will need to make sure that you are first registered. If you are not registered, please reach out to the client or SupplierGateway support to provide you the proper access to the system.

The following topics will be covered in this training:

• Ways to report spend
• How to review and submit your spend
• Confirmation your spend has been submitted

Ways to Report Spend

Once you log in, you will be met with various applications, please select the Submit Tier 2 Standard Reports application. Once the Tier 2 application is selected.

1. Select the reporting period from the drop down menu
2. Enter in Spend by Classification. This is spend by diverse business classification. To get this amount, the system will ask you to do the following:
   1. Calculate the diversity spend percentage for SSM HEALTH CARE for me. 
   2. I will enter the revenue percentage of my SSM HEALTH CARE Revenue myself
   3. I will enter the amount of diverse spend being credited to SSM HEALTH CARE directly
3. If the client has allowed you to enter in Spend by Supplier (Direct Spend). Please note you can add suppliers by using the “+”. This option will allow you to add suppliers already in the system or manually add them utilizing their company name, EIN (optional). Select the appropriate supplier by selecting the “+” sign. After you add the supplier, you will have the option to provide a supplier number or have one auto generated for you.

Review  & Submitting Spend

A few things to note under Spend by Supplier, first, if you encounter a red caution sign, that indicates that the supplier that you have added IS NOT a diverse supplier and will not be added to your spend worksheet. If a supplier’s certification is getting close to its expiration date, the paper clip icon will be yellow. If the certification has already expired, the icon will be red. If the icon is red, you must upload their updated certification in order for the spend to count towards your totals.

After reviewing your expenditures for Spend by Classification and/or Spend by Supplier, you will click the SUBMIT option at the bottom of the worksheet. Once you submit, the system will show you a Reporting Confirmation pop-up page with your totals. You can continue making your submission or go back and update. 

Confirmation on your submission

Once you have made your submission, the reporting window drop down menu will also update and cite “Report already Submitted”. Once this is reflected, the submissions are locked in. If you found that you made a mistake regarding your submission, please contact either the client or SG Support to unsubmit your report. Please note, ,Support can only unsubmit reports that are within the prior quarter. Later report corrections will have to be made directly with the client so that they are aware that their totals are incorrect and also to allow you  the option to unsubmit to correct your report. 

If you have a question regarding any submitting TIer 2, you can select the ? icon where you have the option to review Knowledge Base and Support. If you need direct assistance, select the “Contact Us” option and submit a zendesk ticket to a helpdesk agent.