Introduction

This guide explains how to assign one or more suppliers to a product in TRAEDE. Before creating production orders, TRAEDE must know which suppliers are able to supply a product. You can also define a primary supplier, which is the supplier TRAEDE will use by default when creating production orders.

This guide is useful when updating supplier availability for your products.

Open the product and go to the suppliers tab

1. Go to Products.

2. Select the product you want to update (e.g., A Cool Product).

3. Click the Production tab.

4. Open the Suppliers sub-tab.

Add one or multiple suppliers

1. Scroll to the bottom of the suppliers list.

2. Click Add new supplier.

3. Select the supplier you want to add (e.g., Supplier E).

4. Repeat if the product can be sourced from multiple suppliers.

TRAEDE allows the same product to have multiple suppliers, which is useful for flexibility, cost comparisons, or backup sourcing.

Set the primary supplier

A primary supplier is the supplier TRAEDE uses by default when creating production orders.

1. In the supplier list, select the supplier that should be marked as Primary supplier.

2. Click the checkbox next to Primary supplier.

Optional fields: cost price set and lead time

You will also see:

• Cost price set
  (Covered in a separate guide about cost prices.)

• Lead time
  This indicates how long it normally takes the supplier to produce the product.

You can skip these fields for now if you haven’t set them up yet.

Save your supplier settings

1. Click Save per supplier.

2. Your product is now fully connected to the selected suppliers.

3. You can now create production orders using the updated supplier list.