Product Supplier & Purchasing

The Supplier tab of the product configuration screen lets you set up how purchasing of the product is managed. This includes the ability to change suppliers, configure purchase order workflow, and configure how the cost of the product is determined.

Prerequisites

• You must have administrator access to use this feature
• The Purchase Order App must be enabled to access the Purchase Order Workflow settings

To configure Supplier settings:

1. Log into your DecoNetwork Website.
2. Browse to Admin > Products.

   

   

3. Select a product to configure by either:
   • Clicking on the product code.
   • Clicking on the product name.
   • Clicking on the Manage button beside the product you want to configure, then selecting Edit Product.
     

   The product properties will be shown in the main work area, with a menu at the left to select property categories. General will be selected by default.

4. Select Supplier & Purchasing from the product properties menu.
   

   The main work area contains the configuration options for the supplier.

   

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5. Configure the settings as required.
   • Supplier lets you set which of your vendors is supplying the product. Purchase orders for more products will be made out to this vendor.
     

     If the supplier has been changed for a Catalog product, a note will be displayed indicating the name of the original supplier.

     
   • Purchase Order Workflow sets how orders of the product will progress through the purchase orders section of Business Hub.
     
     • Use default will make this product will comply with the existing global purchase order workflow default settings (configured via Admin > Settings > Purchase Order Settings). If the Product Groups app is enabled, it will make this product use the purchase order workflow default settings for the product type (configured via Admin > Products > Product Groups > Edit [Product Type]), if it differs from the global setting.
     • Required will explicitly make the product progress through the purchase order workflow.
     • Skip will explicitly make the product skip the purchase order workflow.
   • Backup Cost Configuration determines where DecoNetwork will extract supplier cost information from. DecoNetwork will use live pricing from suppliers whenever it is configured and available to do so. If live pricing is not available, DecoNetwork will use the next available method as listed in this drop-down box.
     
     • Use Catalog base cost will take the last price for the product that was published in the vendor catalog. This data, while not live, will be reasonably recent.
     • Single Cost across all SKUs lets you define the product cost in the Cost text box.
       

     • White/Light/Dark lets you set the price based on the color shade in the Cost text box.

       

     • White/Light/Dark x Size allows size to also affect the price along with the color shade.

       

     • Cost by full SKU table lets you specify all prices for every color and size combination.

       
6. Click Save or Save and Continue when done.