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3.5 Setting Up Suppliers Business Examples
Note: For step by step instructions on creating suppliers, please refer to the topic Creating New
Suppliers .
Business Type: Distributing and Fleet - Multiple Suppliers for Each Item
Sebastian Distributing has established relationships with many different suppliers to obtain their goods.
Which supplier they use for a particular item varies depending on how much they are ordering and what
Site (warehouse) they are ordering for. Due to this, they want to be able to associate more than one
supplier with each item and be able to mark a preferred supplier for some items. To do this, they simply
import the entire list of suppliers so they are all added to the database at once (refer to the topic Importing
into the Database). Later, after they add their items, they can assign as many suppliers as needed to
each item and designate one as the preferred supplier. Since all of the suppliers are already in the
database, they can quickly select which suppliers to associate rather than having to enter each supplier
manually. They can even designate specific shipping unites of measure for each supplier to use for
ordering the item.
Business Type: Reseller - One Supplier for Some Items
Brady's Bargains has a list of suppliers from which they regularly receive certain items that they have
been maintaining by hand. They will manually input these suppliers on the Create New Suppliers screen
before they add the items. They can later manually associate the suppliers to an item using the Edit Item
screen/Manage Suppliers tab. Since they are using the Standard version of InventoryControl, they are
limited to entering one supplier and one shipping unit of measure for each item.
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