NEW VPPN

Quick guide
 WHERE DO I FIND
THINGS..?
Quick guide to the new structure

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 Engines & Drives has been restructured, to distinguish between our offer(sales)
and marketing

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 The same goes for Parts & accessories…

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 Service & Warranty is renamed Service, with Warranty as a sub-area

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 Sales & Marketing becomes Marketing with small changes to content

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 Information that you used to find under Training, is now located under the area of
Business Development

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 News/notifications are only posted on the Home Page

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 Change portal language or reset password at the top of VPPN home page

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 ALL application information, including links are now located in one common area -
Applications

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 Public content will only be published in volvopenta.com

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 VPPN top navigation bar

This is the overall portal site-structure:

HOME PAGE – start page with “my applications”, news & notifications and direct links.
VOLVO PENTA OFFERING – product , parts & accessories, sales support related content from
the offering perspective.

SERVICE – technical assistance, warranties and complaint process.

MARKETING – marketing support and promotion related information.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT – how to improve business partner competence, facility

standards and operating standards.

MY ACCOUNT – templates for new user requests & request for additional applications.

APPLICATIONS – the business partners’ applications listed and described.

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 Good to know…
• Product Newsletters (PNL) has been moved out to Product Center, news will
be posted in VPPN when a new PNL is released.
• Quality supersessions will be posted as a Notification on the homepage,
every time a new Quality supersession has been issued.
• The Parts price file and replacement file are now in a text file format, un-zip is
no longer needed. ( )

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 Good to know…
• How to register a Customer to a Unit and an explanation of the importance to
do so.
• How to order applications that are to be locally installed on your PC (VODIA &
EPC Offline)
• What type of publications are to be found and when to use it in the daily
business.

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 Good to know…
• Under each sub section, you will find links to different portals that could be
useful for you.

– : Communication portal
– : Brand and Identity portal
– : Image and Video Gallery
– : Volvo Merchandise webshop

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 Good to know…
• In this chapter, you will find the general policies, process, and guidelines on
how to be a qualified Volvo Penta dealer/importer.
• Link to Global Training Academy has moved to Applications.

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 Good to know…
• CUI (tool for requesting access to applications and request for new users) is
decommissioned. Under you find the
templates to use for “New user” &/or “Additional Application requests”

• Statement of Account, Dealer Self assessment & Dealer self update have
been consolidated into a new application named “Self Service”,
found under:

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 Good to know…
• Default setting is that you only see the applications that you have access to.
By unchecking the ” “ it is possible to see all additional
applications that is available for you to apply for access to.
• Read about the applications’ features and how to apply for access.

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 THE NEW HOME PAGE…
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 Log out from VPPN

Click on your name to change language of VPPN, to find contact

information to your User Administrator or to change your password

Contact details to your support organization

Search VPPN for content, documents, applications etc.

Magnifying glass is always visible at the right hand corner
of your screen even if you have scrolled down a page.

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 Click on the top navigation bar to open up the mega menu for each section
Click anywhere else to close the mega menu.

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 First time you log in to the new VPPN, you get the opportunity to define quick links
to your Favorite applications.

Click on Add to my
favorites on the
applications that you
would like to have as
quick links from the
home page.

This is also possible to

update at a later time.

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 Click Sort to re-arrange the
order of the applications

Move the application

by drag and drop.
Click save when ready.

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 Click Show all to see
all your applications

In this mode you can

add/remove
applications quick links
from the home page.

Click Hide all when

ready.

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 Default filter is always All topics,
so that you do not accidently miss
any important notifications due to
pre-set filters

Use the filters on the right

hand side to filter the flow of
notifications to suit your
interests

Each notification is
tagged with at least
one topic

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 Under the Notification
area, a set of
interesting links are
gathered

Here you will find the link to

the Dealer Locator

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 You can always navigate back to the VPPN home page, either via a click on the
Volvo Penta logo at the left hand top of the portal…

…or via clicking on “Home” in the bread crumbs in the upper left hand part of all
pages of the portal.

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