Summary
View your Suppliers on this screen, along with some essential information about them.
To manage a Supplier, click the edit icon.
Deletion may have serious irreversible impact on your reporting, stock and allocation; Iconography always recommends disabling in the first instance.
Setup
Supplier Details
| Field | Purpose |
| Supplier Name | The Name of the Supplier (mandatory) |
| Telephone Number | |
| Contact Email | This is also the email address to which Purchase Orders will be emailed |
| Website | |
| Supplier Notes |
These will be copied onto Purchase Orders when they are created
If you amend these over time, the historical version will be preserved against on older Purchase Orders |
| Live (show in lists) |
Untick to archive
Archived Suppliers will not display in the CMS |
Purchase Orders
| Field | Purpose |
| Allow Purchase Orders? |
Toggle yes/no
If set to 'no', it will not be possible to create Purchase Orders for this Supplier |
| Collate Purchase Orders? |
If set to 'es', this will collates multiple items into a single Purchase Order; this will happen if you create a new Purchase Order Line and an existing Open Purchase Order exists for that Supplier
This will apply when creating Purchase Order lines from the Sales Order Detail screen, or from Required Orders |
| Drop Shipping Available? | Toggle to enable Drop Shipping |
| Ongoing Discount |
Enter a percentage discount that will be applied to all Purchase Order Lines |
| Minimum Purchase Order Value | Enter a minimum Purchase Order Value |
| Minimum Carriage Charge | Enter a minimum carriage charge |
| Additional Carriage Charge | Enter an additional carriage charge and the threshold |
| Estimated days until acknowledgment | This field powers the 'overdue acknowledgment' status |
| Default lead time | Enter a default Lead Time; this will be overridden by Variants with specific Lead Times set against them |
Addresses
These addresses are stored for information purposes only, and have no additional function.
| Field | Purpose |
| Default Address | The default address of the Supplier |
| Order Address | The address for submitted Purchase Orders |
| Returns Address | The address to be used when returning items |