How to manage suppliers and purchasing

Set up suppliers, raise purchase orders and email them as PDFs, book goods into stock on arrival, and measure who keeps their lead times.

5 min de lecturaÚltima actualización: 2026-09-01

The Procurement screens hold everything about goods coming in: who you buy from, what was promised, what arrived, and what the stock is worth. The flow is always the same — define the supplier, raise a purchase order, send it, and receive the goods when they arrive, which is the moment stock increases. Do not confuse these with customer orders: the orders here are the ones you place with your suppliers.

Antes de empezar

  • A panel account that can see the procurement screens
  • Your suppliers' company details and the email address to send purchase orders to
  • Products with stock tracking on — receiving goods writes stock

Pasos

Las pantallas son ilustrativas; los datos de tu panel serán distintos.

  1. Paso 1: Define the supplier

    On Procurement > Suppliers click New supplier. Company name is required; Tax number, Tax office, Contact person and Address are for your bookkeeping. Two fields change how the system behaves: Email is where the purchase-order PDF is sent, and Lead time (days) is what the supplier promised — the performance report measures the actual against it.

    Suppliers

    New supplier

    Company name
    Anadolu Gıda Ltd.
    Email
    orders@anadolugida.com

    The purchase-order PDF is sent to this address.

    Payment terms
    30 days net

    Free text: "30 days net", "prepaid", and so on.

    Lead time (days)
    7

    What the supplier promised. The performance report measures the actual against it.

    Active

    açık
    New supplier — vista de ejemplo del panel
  2. Paso 2: Link the product to a supplier

    The Supply section on a product's variant page records who you buy it from and for how much. Click Link a supplier and enter the Supplier's product code, Unit cost (excl. VAT) and Minimum order quantity. A product can have several suppliers; the one you Make preferred is the one used for automatic reorder suggestions.

    Supply

    Who you buy this product from, and for how much.

    Supplier
    Anadolu Gıda Ltd.
    Supplier's product code
    AG-4471
    Unit cost (excl. VAT)
    64.50
    Minimum order quantity
    24
    Make preferred
    Supply — vista de ejemplo del panel
  3. Paso 3: Raise a purchase order

    On Procurement > Purchase Orders click New order and pick the supplier and the Delivery branch. An order goes to one address — raise two orders for two branches. Add the lines with Add product; the cost is filled in from the supplier record. A new order always starts as a Draft: the supplier has seen nothing yet, so you can edit freely.

    Draft

    New order

    Supplier
    Anadolu Gıda Ltd.
    Delivery branch
    Kadıköy Şubesi

    An order goes to one address. Raise two orders for two branches.

    Expected delivery date
    18.09.2026
    Supplier codeOrderedUnit costAmount
    AG-44714864.50 ₺3,096.00 ₺
    AG-221024112.00 ₺2,688.00 ₺

    Cost filled in from the supplier record.

    New order — vista de ejemplo del panel
  4. Paso 4: Send the order to the supplier

    When the draft is ready, click Send to supplier. The order goes to the supplier's email address as a PDF and the status becomes Sent — sent to the supplier, goods expected. If the email cannot be delivered the panel says so plainly and asks you to download the PDF and send it yourself; the order still counts as sent, so it never vanishes quietly.

    Sent

    Purchase Orders

    AllOutstandingDrafts
    Order noSupplierOrderedReceivedOutstanding
    SAS-1042Anadolu Gıda Ltd.72072
    SAS-1039Ege Ambalaj500300200
    Send to supplierDownload PDF

    Order marked as sent, but the email could not be delivered. Download the PDF and send it yourself.

    Purchase Orders — vista de ejemplo del panel
  5. Paso 5: Receive the goods — this is where stock increases

    When the delivery arrives, open Receive goods on the order. Lines are pre-filled with everything still outstanding; you only correct the exceptions. Enter the Waybill number and the Branch the goods arrived at, and add a Discrepancy note for anything short or damaged. This writes real stock and cannot be undone — do not enter the same delivery twice.

    Receive goods

    This writes real stock. Do not enter the same delivery twice.

    Waybill number
    A-889214
    Branch the goods arrived at
    Kadıköy Şubesi
    Supplier codeOrderedQuantity receivedDiscrepancy note
    AG-44714848
    AG-221024213 broken, 5 missing...

    Lines are pre-filled with everything still outstanding. Correct the exceptions.

    Save goods receipt
    Receive goods — vista de ejemplo del panel
  6. Paso 6: Let minimum stock suggest the reorder

    Reorder suggestions groups products below their minimum stock level by preferred supplier. Create draft orders produces drafts only; nothing is sent to any supplier. Products with no preferred supplier cannot be suggested, and the panel tells you how many were skipped for that reason.

    Reorder suggestions

    Products below their minimum stock level, grouped by preferred supplier.

    SupplierSuggested quantity
    Anadolu Gıda Ltd.96
    Ege Ambalaj250

    4 product(s) have no preferred supplier, so no suggestion could be made.

    Create draft orders
    Reorder suggestions — vista de ejemplo del panel
  7. Paso 7: Use the reports to see who keeps their word

    Procurement Reports has three tabs. Incoming Stock lists what is on its way with an approximate value and flags anything overdue. Supplier Performance puts Promised next to Actual; actual lead time is measured from when you sent the order to when the first goods arrived. Stock Value gives what the goods on hand are worth, branch by branch.

    Supplier Performance

    Incoming StockSupplier PerformanceStock Value
    SupplierPromisedActualOn timeShort shippedOrders
    Anadolu Gıda Ltd.7692%3%38
    Ege Ambalaj101741%12%22

    Actual lead time is measured from when you sent the order to when the first goods arrived.

    Supplier Performance — vista de ejemplo del panel

Consejos

The status names are promises — read them

Partially received means part of the order arrived and the rest is still expected. Close order says the remainder is no longer expected — it is the moment you stop chasing a short shipment. Cancelling instead removes the outstanding quantities from incoming stock.

A preferred supplier is what makes automation possible

A product can have several suppliers, but automatic reorder suggestions only use the preferred one. Mark a preferred supplier on every product where you set a minimum stock level, or that product never appears in the suggestion list at all.

Keep costs current — stock value depends on them

The Stock Value report uses each variant's purchase cost. Variants with no known cost are left out, and the count of them is printed underneath. Make updating the cost on the supplier record a habit whenever a price rises.

Preguntas frecuentes

More goods arrived than I ordered — how do I book them in?
You cannot. The panel refuses a quantity above what was ordered and asks you to settle the excess with the supplier first. The right route is to agree with the supplier and then either raise a new order or, if it is still a draft, correct the quantity on the existing one.
Can I edit an order after sending it?
No. Only draft orders can be edited. If something must change after sending, cancel the order and raise a new one; it is built this way so the PDF in the supplier's hands and the record in your panel cannot drift apart.
I entered a goods receipt wrongly — can I reverse it?
A goods receipt cannot be undone, because it writes real stock. Correcting a wrong quantity means making a stock movement adjustment. That is why the panel makes you confirm exactly how many units go into which branch's stock before saving.
I deleted a supplier but it is still in the list
A supplier with purchase history is not deleted but deactivated, so you never lose the record of who a past order went to. Use the Active suppliers only filter to hide them from the list.

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