Who is your secondary supplier?
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.
Benefits:
Real Time Scenario:
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.
Step2: Now in 'Choose Supplier Name', field select the supplier which needs to be added as 'Secondary Supplier' for the item.
In 'Choose Item Name', the field select the item with which the secondary supplier needs to be mapped.
Step4: Then click on 'New Map'.
Step5: After that, as you can view the software has mapped the secondary supplier successfully & then click on 'OK'.
FAQ:
Can we mark multiple secondary suppliers for an item?
Ans: Yes definitely, you can mark multiple suppliers as 'Others'/ Secondary suppliers.
Can we delete the secondary supplier mapping for the item?
Ans: Yes, you can delete the secondary supplier mapping for the item
Can we delete the secondary supplier mapping for multiple items at once?