Supplier Setup

In order to create suppliers

Navigate to Supply Base > Suppliers à Click on Create Supplier & give details as shown below

Click on Apply. On the page opened next, click on Address Book à Click on Create

Give details as shown below

For address purpose, select atleast 2 & click on continue

Select the OU

& click on Apply.

Create another site (Click on Create in the window opened subsequently). Give details as shown below

With this first supplier with 2 sites (Hyderabad & Delhi) has been created

Now create another supplier with 2 sites

Navigate to Supply Base > Suppliers à Click on Create Supplier

Give details as shown below

& click on Apply

Click on Address Book à Click on Create. Give details as shown below

& click on continue

Select the OU from the list & press Apply

Again Click on create & create one more site

With this our suppliers & site setup is completed

Supplier Merge: Supplier merge is an option which we can utilize whenever there is Merger & acquisition of one vendor by another vendor.

Navigate to Supply Base > Supplier Merge

Click on Merge. With this the Delhi site of Supplier1 will now be merged with Supplier2. So we have 3 sites for supplier2 now & 1 site for supplier1. You can check this from Purchase Order form

It can also be used for merging two sites for the same supplier. Give details as shown below

& click on Merge. Now check the status of New Sites from Purchasing form.

Creating Supplier List: Supplier list is a segregation of suppliers based upon the items they supply. Kindly note that supplier list is different from Approved Supplier List

Navigate to Supply Base > Supplier Lists & give details as shown below