Creating a Supplier

Creating a Supplier Manually

From the Suppliers page, click Add Supplier.

Fill in the supplier details:

• Name (required) — the name you use for this supplier
• Email — used for sending Purchase Orders by email
• Phone — for your reference
• Lead time — how many days it typically takes from placing an order to receiving the goods; this is used in the analysis to calculate buffer stock

Click Save to create the supplier. You can add more detail — vendor links, analysis defaults, and so on — by editing the supplier afterwards.

Creating a Supplier from a Shopify Vendor

If you have products in your Shopify store, Skumo will detect the vendor names already on your products and show any that aren't linked to a supplier yet as unmatched vendors.

You'll see a banner on the Suppliers page and the Purchase Orders page showing how many unmatched vendors exist. Click it to open the unmatched vendors panel.

For each unmatched vendor, you can:

• Create a new supplier — this creates a supplier with the vendor name pre-filled and the vendor name already linked
• Link to an existing supplier — if the vendor belongs to a supplier you've already created, select it here

This is the fastest way to get set up if you already have products with vendor names in Shopify — you'll be able to create or match all your suppliers in a few minutes.

After Creating a Supplier

Once a supplier exists, edit it to add the details that make Skumo work best for you:

• Link any Shopify vendor names that the supplier covers
• Set analysis defaults (method, filters) so you don't have to configure them every time you generate a PO
• Set a minimum order threshold if you want the dashboard to flag when you're ready to order. The Ready to Order figures use the supplier's analysis defaults (method, tag and name filters) and exclude any items flagged out of stock at the supplier
• Toggle pre-barcoded on if items from this supplier arrive with barcodes

See Editing a Supplier for a full breakdown of all available fields.