Supply Chain › Items & Suppliers
Suppliers
Open a supplier for its sites, financial terms, bank details, certifications, diversity and exclusions — the ordering address is almost never the one you pay.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Master Data
- Section: Items & Suppliers
- Screen: Suppliers
Address in the console: /scm/suppliers
List · 10 columns · 21 fields on its form · 1 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Supplier | Code | supplier_no |
| Name | Text | name |
| Registered for | Text | categories |
| City | Text | city |
| Country | Code | country |
| Text | contact_email | |
| Terms (days) | Number | payment_terms_days |
| Quality | Number | quality_score |
| Delivery | Number | delivery_score |
| Status | Status | status |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supplier number | Text | Left blank, the platform allocates the next one from the number range. | |
| Name required | Text | ||
| Text | Where an enquiry is sent. A vendor with no address here is named in the answer when an event is published, rather than silently left out. | ||
| Registered for | Text | Configuration list | The spend categories this vendor supplies — add as many as apply. Publishing a sourcing event for a category sends the enquiry to everybody registered for it. |
| Industry | Text | ||
| Country | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Legal name | Text | ||
| Website | Text | The company’s web address, e.g. https://example.com | |
| Main telephone | Text | ||
| Registered address | Text | ||
| City | Text | ||
| State / province | Choice | Looked up from existing records | Chosen from the country’s own list where there is one, typed where there is not. |
| Postal / ZIP code | Text | ||
| Employees | Number | ||
| Founded (year) | Number | ||
| About the company | Long text | ||
| Payment terms (days) | Number | ||
| Status | Choice | prospective, approved, hold, inactive | |
| Quality score | Number | ||
| Delivery score | Number | ||
| Inspect every delivery | Yes or no | What is received from this supplier goes on quality hold until its incoming inspection passes. |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.