Your Secondary Supplier is the one whom you give the alternate priority for your orders for the line of items you want. When your primary supplier is unable to supply the items or there are rate differences between suppliers, then at the time of placing a Purchase Order, you can choose these suppliers for your orders.
By setting the Secondary Suppliers, you can prioritize the reordering system and make the Purchase Order simplified. All the Items which are mapped with Other Distributors will be loaded on the Reorder screen seamlessly.
In your supermarket, you must have faced the situation of stock out many times & most of the time the reason was non-availability of primary suppliers. So to make this easy we have given an option of setting up a secondary supplier for the items so that they can be considered for the purchase.
To know the process, follow the below- mentioned steps:
Step: 1 Go to BPM > Purchase Management > Supplier Setup > Supplier wise Item Mapping.
Supplier versus item mapping is the process of creating a relationship between suppliers and the items they provide. This process involves identifying which suppliers provide which items and maintaining a record of that information for future reference.
Step 1: Go to the master module, choose the supplier option, and then choose the Supplier vs. item option.
Step 2: Now in 'Choose Supplier Name', field select the supplier which needs to be added as 'Secondary Supplier' for the item.
Step 3: Now choose the effective date from which the option will be in active state.
Step 4: You will be given a list of items, each of which has a description, item code, and item name. To find an item by name, you may also use the search box.
Step 5: After that, as you can view the software has mapped the secondary supplier successfully.
Can we mark multiple secondary suppliers for an item?
Ans: Yes definitely, we can mark multiple secondary suppliers for an item.
Can we delete the secondary supplier mapping for the item?
Ans: Yes, you can delete the secondary supplier mapping for the item by using Reset key.