What is a supplier?

A supplier is an organization from which you purchase goods and services.

Suppliers are used throughout SunSystems. In SunSystems Order Fulfilment, purchase orders and invoices can be entered for suppliers. In Financials, suppliers are used indirectly because they are linked to an associated creditor/payables or client account.

There is a large amount of information that can be maintained for each supplier, some of which is only required if you are using Order Fulfilment. In addition to the predefined details, a supplier may have up to ten analysis codes. You can use these analysis codes to maintain other useful information. For example, you might establish analysis dimension to record product group code to enable you to identify the type of products supplied by the supplier. A creditor/payables account may also have up to ten analysis codes and these may be totally different to the ten supplier analysis codes.

All of the details relating to a supplier are defined in Supplier (SUS).