Lesson 5.2

Add your vendors

Add the vendors you send work to, with categories and lead times for their operations.

5 minVendors5 steps
In the vendor drawer, Name "Treasure Valley Anodize", Categories Finishing and Preferred Vendor are set, and Save shows the toast "Vendor created successfully".

Before you start

Steps

  1. In Vendors, click Add

    The New Vendor drawer opens.

  2. Enter Name, Categories, Custom Tags, Website and Compliance

  3. Turn on Preferred Vendor if it applies

    The New Vendor drawer for Treasure Valley Anodize with Finishing under Categories and Preferred Vendor turned on.
  4. Click Submit

    You will see "Vendor created successfully".

  5. On the vendor page, under Approved operations, click Add operation for each operation template the vendor handles, and set a lead time override where it differs

    Lead time falls back to the operation template unless you override it here.

Note

There is no finishes list. A finish is an operation with a vendor source.

Tip

You can import vendors from QuickBooks or Xero.

What good looks like

  • Your platers, heat treaters and material suppliers are listed with categories.

Next: set up materials and stock locations

Add the materials you buy with prices, the places you keep stock, and your repeat parts.

No contracts. Cancel anytime.

Open lesson 5.3

All Rights Reserved.