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J. How to add supplier details to a product
A product can be associated to one or several qualified and approved suppliers for different reasons such as lead time, quality, references etc. This option becomes extremely important if replenishment rules are to be created for this product.
To add supplier details for a product –> Go to: Products/ Products
- Use the search tools to filter values to find the product you want to edit
- Click on the pencil icon
next to the product line to open it in edit mode - Click on the “Suppliers” tab
- Click on “New” button to associate a supplier to the product
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- Select the supplier
- Select Supplier UoM (Unit of Measure)
Associating a supplier to a product
5. When more than one supplier is associated with a product, the system will use the sequence of suppliers to select the default (i.e. preferred or most highly ranked) supplier for any orders it generates, either through the sourcing tool or for POs created automatically due to the replenishment rules configuration for certain products.
The lower the number, the better the rating, so “1” is considered a better supplier than “2“and ”-1” is better than “1”. This field should be entered manually, although it has been agreed that the following conventions will be used:
- When a suppliers’ information comes from an RfQ which has been identified as the chosen supplier for this product (through a tender process), the system will automatically assign a “-99” rate. This is based on the assumption that a supplier selected from a tender process will be the preferred one.
- When a supplier’s information comes from a catalogue, then the system will automatically assign a 0 rate.
All ratings can be changed manually if another supplier should be by default selected for automated orders.
Supplier sequence, rating
