Alternative suppliers

Alternative suppliers

Overview

Find out how to add alternative suppliers and pricing to products.

Alternative suppliers are secondary vendors of goods and materials. You can purchase from an alternative supplier when the primary supplier cannot meet demand.

For each product option, you can add alternative suppliers and specify those suppliers’ costs. When you create a purchase order for an alternative supplier, Cin7 Omni will use the alternative supplier’s cost for each line item.

Enable alternative suppliers

  1. Log in to Cin7 Omni as an administrator.

  2. From the navigation, open Products.

  3. Open Settings.

  4. Set Show Alternative Suppliers to Yes.

  5. Click Save.

  6. Click Save.

Add an alternative supplier

  1. From the navigation, open Products.

  2. Open the product to add an alternative supplier for.

First, under Product Options, add the alternative supplier and the product option’s details:

  1. For each product option the alternative supplier can supply:

    1. Click Add Alt Supplier.

    2. For Alt Supplier, start typing the name of the alternative supplier and then select it from the list.

    3. Enter the Code, Supplier Code, Barcode, and option label values.

Now, under Pricing, add the alternative supplier’s costs and save:

  1. For each product option the alternative supplier can supply, enter its Cost.

  2. Click Save and Close.

Now you can create a purchase order for the alternative supplier.

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