Suppliers

Quant allows to easily create and manage suppliers. The platform supports both manual and automated supplier creation, allowing users to assign products to suppliers based on the supplier ID attribute entered on the product. In addition, Quant provides the flexibility to customize settings for individual stores. This manual also includes instructions on enabling automatic replenishment, setting ordering days, defining delivery times and configuring order confirmation times.

These functions are described in this manual:

The creation of a new supplier

You can create a new supplier in Quant Explorer in the Suppliers section using the following options:

New button –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ manual supplier creation, after entering the supplier name you also enter its unique ID.

New Supplier

Each supplier's product should have a Supplier ID value filled in on the product. This is necessary to ensure that products are correctly associated with the supplier. When a supplier is created using the New button, the Supplier ID value should match the Supplier ID value on the product.

Supplier ID

Create Supplier button - automatically goes through all the values in the Supplier ID filled in for the products specific to the industry and creates individual suppliers accordingly.

When creating suppliers, you can apply a product or category filter, allowing you to create suppliers for specific products or categories. If you leave the Products, Category or Product Filter line blank and the All Products box remains checked, suppliers are generated from all products from Quant.

Create Suppliers

You can check the correct assignment of products to each supplier in the Suppliers / Supplier Store Settings section of the Products tab.

Products tab in Supplier Store Settings

Enabling automatic replenishment

If you want to start creating automatic replenishment for a specific supplier, you need to enable them using the Automatic Replenishment attribute for both the supplier and the category. When you enable orders, you can set order days, delivery times and confirmation times for them. If all these values are the same for all suppliers, you can leave them with a parent value set in Orders -> Order Types.

Suppliers

Ordering attributes

Ordering Days

This is where you define the days on which the order will be generated. Click the New button to create a new order day and set the Start Date. You can also select a basic order Period (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly) and a multiplier, which indicates how many times the period should be repeated.

Ordering Days

If you want to create an order every Thursday every 2 weeks, set the start date to next Thursday, the base period to weekly and the multiplier to 2.

If you need to enter multiple order days with a weekly period, you can use the Add Weekdays button.

Lead Time

The lead time is the number of days the supplier will deliver the order. If the delivery time is 2 and the order is generated on Monday, we assume that it will be delivered on Wednesday morning.

Confirmation Time

This value determines the exact time of the order confirmation. At this point the order will be set to Ordered status and its approved quantity cannot be changed. At the same time, Quant can export the order to FTP or email it directly to the supplier.

Min/Max Days Reserve

In the Suppliers section, you can set the Min Days Reserve and Max Days Reserve.

For more information on this attribute, check Min and Max Values manual.

Min Total Price

You can set a minimum order value for a specific supplier using the Min Total Price attribute.

Supplier Store Settings

If each store has different ordering days or other differences in ordering, you can set this up in the Suppliers / Supplier Store Settings section. In this section, each row represents a store / supplier combination for which you can make separate settings.

Suppliers Store Settings