2 | Supplier Maintenance Overview

This article covers a brief Overview of Suppliers and how they are created on BackOffice. The Supplier List is used to maintain a list of Suppliers that Products can be purchased from, as well as linking Products to Suppliers. When generating automatic Purchase Orders from the system, it is important to properly assign products to the correct supplier. Otherwise, the automatic ordering feature will order Products not supplied by the Supplier, or miss Products that are supplied by the Supplier.

This article covers a brief Overview of Suppliers and how they are created on BackOffice.

The Supplier List is used to maintain a list of Suppliers that Products can be purchased from, as well as linking Products to Suppliers.

When generating automatic Purchase Orders from the system, it is important to properly assign products to the correct supplier. Otherwise, the automatic ordering feature will order Products not supplied by the Supplier, or miss Products that are supplied by the Supplier.

Prerequisites

To access and Supplier Maintenance, the applicable Operator Privileges will need to be enabled:

Operator Maintenance 'Maintenance' Tab

All "Supplier" Flags

Accessing the Supplier List

Run BackOffice and Log In

From the Maintenance menu, select Supplier which will open the Supplier List
From here, additional Suppliers can be added and existing Suppliers can be edited

Creating a New Supplier

After accessing the Supplier List tab, select the Add New Supplier button

This will open a new Supplier Maintenance window which will allow for entering the new Supplier details