Suppliers — Overview

What is a Supplier in Skumo?

A supplier in Skumo represents a company you order stock from. Suppliers are the starting point for every Purchase Order — you always create a PO for a specific supplier.

Keeping your suppliers well set up is one of the most impactful things you can do in Skumo, because the information you store on each supplier feeds directly into the analysis engine, email sending, and receiving workflow.

Suppliers and Shopify Vendors

Shopify uses vendors to record which brand or company makes each product. Skumo links your suppliers to these Shopify vendor names, which is how it knows which products to include when you generate a Purchase Order for a given supplier.

For example, if you have a supplier called "ABC Trading" who supplies products from the brands "Acme" and "Widgets Co.", you'd link both of those vendor names to the ABC Trading supplier in Skumo. When you create a PO for ABC Trading, Skumo will pull in all products with either of those vendor names.

Unmatched Vendors

When you first set up Skumo, some of your Shopify vendors may not yet be linked to a supplier. These are called unmatched vendors. You'll see a prompt on the Suppliers page and the Purchase Orders page to review and assign them.

You can either:

• Link an unmatched vendor to an existing supplier
• Create a new supplier directly from the unmatched vendor

The Suppliers List

The Suppliers page shows all your active suppliers with:

• Supplier name
• Email address
• Lead time (days)
• Suggested order value (from the most recent analysis)

Click on any supplier to view and edit their details.