Introduction to suppliers

A supplier product is the Norce way to represent your supplier catalog and how you can work with multiple supplier for the same product in your catalog.

A Supplier Product are not products that are ready to sell. In order to create actual products in your catalog, a SKU Creation Rule is needed or manual creation is needed.

Data Model The diagrams below are to illustrate the data model between the supplier and the client. As you can see every supplier has its own set of prices, price lists, on-hand and warehouses. This is then mapped to your product catalog where a product can have multiple suppliers allowing the client to source products from various suppliers depending on lead-times, margins or individual discounts.

A Supplier Product is mapped with your product catalog using Manufacturer Code and Manufacturer PartNo