Suppliers

A supplier is more than an address on an order. A number of fields from its card are used across the whole module.

Stockly → Purchasing → Suppliers.

The data

The Supplier information section:

• Name, Number, Language — identification and the language of correspondence.
• Email — the address purchase orders are sent to. Without it an order cannot be sent.
• Phone.
• Lead time (days) — the typical days from order to delivery. It pre-fills the expected delivery date and feeds threshold and reorder calculations.
• Payment terms (days) — net days to pay after the invoice date.
• Default currency.
• Quality control policy — Required sends all of this supplier’s goods to quality control at receipt; Inherit passes the decision down: product, category, manufacturer or the global default.

Why lead time matters

Lead time is one of the two factors behind a minimum threshold (the other is the sales rate). A supplier with no lead time recorded falls back to the plan’s default, which means the threshold is computed from a figure that does not describe that supplier’s deliveries.

If reorder suggestions look late or exaggerated, the supplier’s lead time is the first place to check. → Min/max thresholds

Assigning to products

A product with no supplier will not appear in a purchase order created from suggestions, because there is no party to order it from. The assignment is made on the product. → Reorder suggestions

Quality control per supplier

The policy can also be set in bulk on a dedicated screen. → Quality control