To get an ordered and structured overview of all your suppliers, it is important to link commodities to the suppliers. A vendor can be linked to to multiple commodities at once.
If you use Spend and transfer a linked Spend supplier from Spend to Vendors, this link will automatically be made in Vendors. The Vendor - Commodity links in Spend and Vendors are separate from each other.
Let's get started with linking suppliers to categories.
Link a vendor to a commodity
- Navigate to Admin > Vendors settings > Connect commodities.
- Under 'Connect commodity, you will see two tables: 'Commodity' and 'Vendor'.
- From the 'Commodity' table on the left, select a commodity.
- From the 'Vendor' table on the right, select the vendor(s) you wish to link to the commodity you selected in step 3. You can make multiple selections at once.
Example: If you select two categories and two suppliers, both categories will be linked to both suppliers. - Click 'Add' to create the new link.
At the bottom of the page, under the header 'Connected vendors' you will see an overview of all links.
You can also view this link under Vendors > Vendors. Read more about this overview here.