Assigning suppliers to products in Brightpearl Video Lecture - Using Brightpearl

here's a video where we're going to see
how to assign suppliers to products what
we're going to cover is why you'd want
to assign supplies to products
specifically creating a purchase order
from the low stock report drop shipping
direct from supplier or creating
purchase orders from batches of sales
orders and then we're also going to see
how to assign this suppliers to those
products in a number of different ways
so the most common reason for having
suppliers assigned to your products is
for making purchase orders easier and
quicker using the low stock report we
can get to the low stock report at
products low stock report this shows all
of the items below the minimum stock
level but to create a purchase order
would actually have to filter this list
to show products from only one vendor so
let's choose conocchia industries here
filter the report which shows all of the
items below the minimum stock for that
supplier and we simply hit create
purchase order that's now created a
purchase order for all of those products
we just need to tweak the quantities and
send it off to the supplier
another reason for connecting suppliers
to products is when you want to dropship
so here we have a sales order for a
large format printer we can see that we
have zero on hand on this particular
warehouse so we want to get our supply
to send it directly we'll hover over
fulfill click partial or vast
fulfillment and there's a separate video
that shows you all about drop shipping
we can see that there's none available
in our main warehouse we do have some in
our overstock warehouse but because this
product is connected to the supplier and
the supplier has a price for it we now
have the option to create a dropship
purchase order to send this item
directly to the customer we'll choose a
shipping method and then click to create
a purchase order which we can see at the
bottom of the screen and the last reason
you might want to connect suppliers to
products is when you want to create a
batch purchase order for a load of sales
in one go so here we have the sales list
if I select all of these sales and then
from the Actions menu choose batch
purchase orders there are a number of
options here we won't go into the detail
but for those products that are
connected to suppliers we'll create a
purchase order all in one go and if a
product is connected to multiple
suppliers and multiple purchase orders
are created
there's no concept of preferred supplier
there are a number of different ways
that you can assign supplies to products
here we're looking at the product edit
screen in the vendors or suppliers tab
and you can choose multiple suppliers by
holding down the ctrl or the command key
whilst you select the suppliers another
way to assign supplies to products is in
bulk using the product list select a
number of products and then from the
menu choose set supplier select your
supplier and then you can choose whether
to unlink your old suppliers or not if
you choose yes this will replace any
supply links you have for those products
if you choose no it'll actually append
this supplier onto the list of available
supplies for that product the last way
to set suppliers on your products is by
importing a spreadsheet so here we've
Qantas setup data slash import and
import products and i've created a new
data map called set supplier using this
cue if i edit this data map we can see
what it contains it's literally just the
SKU and the supplier name it's important
to remember that suppliers are always
companies so even if it's just a person
that supplies you give them a company
name because it's the supplier company
name that we use all you need to do then
is uploaded to column spreadsheet with
SKU and supplier this will append that
supplier to the list of suppliers for
the product and if you wanted to add
multiple suppliers just have multiple
rows in the spreadsheet with the same
SKU and that's all you need to know
about assigning suppliers to products