Navigating a Draft Exploration

Let's start with a Draft Exploration. As you remember from the Refining Search Results section, you can create Draft Exploration by starting with Search, selecting the relevant rows, and clicking Explore selection.

You can double check which networks you're exploring by clicking on the Network tab. Here you see the Sherwin Williams entities we chose previously.

When an exploration is launched, entities are presented with their immediate supply chains visible. Let's take a look at this top left company node, Sherwin Williams Company. Clicking on it opens a side drawer, where you can explore Supply Chain, Facility Operations and other options.

Companies in the supply chain are sorted left to right by number of shipments and top to bottom by recency of shipments. That means the top left hand corner is the largest trading partner with recent shipments.

Additionally, you can click Company Profile to see a full company overview, including custom fields, ownership, facilities, products, and more.

You can update the status of a company in the top right drop down. This status will be reflected anywhere in your environment.

If you would like to highlight a particular company for easier tracking, you can do that by right clicking and highlighting the entity.

You can also hold the Shift button and drag your mouse to highlight multiple entities at once.