📄🎥 Introduction to Suppliers
This lesson covers an introduction to the "Suppliers" Maintenance Menu in BackOffice.
Overview
Suppliers are the vendors that will provide the goods or services to Venues.
When Products are created, they can then be allocated to Suppliers to create and receive Purchase Orders.
Prerequisites
- To access the "Supplier" Maintenance Menu, the following Operator Privileges will need to be enabled
- Operators: "View Operators" Flag
- Operator Maintenance 'Maintenance' Tab
Suppliers
- The Supplier list is used to maintain a record of Suppliers that the Organization Purchases Products from
- Information about each Supplier can be managed in this domain and Suppliers can then be useful for Purchasing & Receiving purposes
- For any Purchase Orders that are generated from the system, it is important that Products are properly assigned to the correct Supplier
- Otherwise, the automatic ordering feature could order Products from incorrect Suppliers or even miss Products altogether
