Purchasing

Suppliers

The supplier register: detail tabs, item links with prices and lead times, offers, performance, and archiving.

The supplier register

Suppliers (Partners group) holds everyone you buy from. Each supplier carries contact details, currency, payment and delivery terms, and its own activity: orders, returns, linked items, notes, and files.

The supplier page

A supplier's page collects everything in tabs: Overview (terms and contacts), Items (the catalog link, below), Orders (purchase orders with this supplier), Returns, Performance, plus attachments, notes, and settings.

Item links

The Items tab links catalog items to this supplier with the supplier's own article number, order unit, price, currency, and lead time. These links are what make the rest of purchasing smart: reorder suggestions pick a preferred supplier, PO lines pre-fill prices, and price-history reporting has a source. An item can link to several suppliers — mark the preferred one per site in its reorder rules.

Prices drift, so links support refreshing an offer per line: update the quoted price on the link (or straight from a PO line) and the change lands in price history rather than overwriting silently.

Performance

The Performance tab scores what actually happened: delivery precision against promised lead times, quantity accuracy, and return rate. It's the factual basis for the supplier performance report and for deciding who gets the next big order.

Archiving

Suppliers with history archive rather than delete — the orders and receipts they explain stay explainable. Archived suppliers disappear from pickers but remain on their historical documents.