# Working with External Supplier Collaborators External collaboration within the _Supplier Change Notification_ process enables organizations to not only receive and immediately begin processing notifications of changes from Suppliers and partners, but to seamlessly interact with their key contacts at those organizations to confirm understanding of the issues. They can triage and assess the impacts of those changes all within Vault, as part of a configured, controlled lifecycle and workflow. External Collaboration on a _Supplier Change Notification_ does not require that your partners [send emails directly to Vault](/en/lr/54469202/), and will work even in configurations where the _Supplier Change Notification_ record is created manually by a member of your organization. An example configuration might make your process for tackling _Supplier Change Notifications_ look something like this: Supplier Change Notification Learn the basics about [using external collaboration](/en/lr/65816/). This feature requires [configuration by an Admin](/en/lr/65819/) before use.