Easier Identification of Supplier per product

[cameron.mackenzie]

Could we please have better visibility of suppliers against products in the Material Requirements view?

In an ideal workflow, using the Material Requirements interface to trigger purchase orders, the suppliers of each product would be listed along with the products. This would streamline the ability to filter and report before creating Purchase Orders. Currently we have over 2000 suppliers, it is nearly impossible to know which supplier is used for each required product without doing a separate search per product.

We can currently filter by supplier, but when you have more suppliers to choose from this becomes time consuming on its own. 

[andrade_david]

Thank you for your idea, @cameron.mackenzie 

In the past it has been internally discussed having (in the screen where Purchase Orders are created) a way to automate the selection of the supplier, in case only 1 exists for each Product/Purchase Order. In your case, if multiple ones exist I would go for adding a tooltip indicating the Suppliers available for each Product.

[rsteinFHNXK]

Hello,

It would be helpful to have a preferred supplier for each part. You can have multiple suppliers per part as exists currently, but select one as preferred or current supplier. Then the system can automatically select that supplier for POs. The product cost for purchased parts could also be set per supplier but also on the part separately used for calculations in BOMs. 

[andrade_david]

Hello @rsteinFHNXK, thanks for adding further thoughts!

Just a side note, your idea of having a different cost per product would get more visibility if you create a separate idea, instead of being only in this comment. I'm sharing this mostly because it's two developments with significant differences:

• identifying the product suppliers in the MRP + have a preferred one supplier per product
• have a different product cost per supplier

Thank you!