Storing a supplier on an item
A free-text field plus an order URL — deliberately no more supplier management than that. What the field can do and where its limits lie.
Diese Funktion ist in den Plänen Pro und Premium enthalten. Pläne vergleichen
In Gantway the supplier is a free-text field on the item — not a record of its own. You find it in the article form: sidebar → Inventory → "Articles" tab → "Add article" (on an existing article via the pencil icon). You simply enter the name, as the placeholder text in the field shows: "e.g. Würth, Amazon…". By default, Admin and Purchasing/Warehouse may maintain article data. Next to it, the order URL holds the direct link to the product in the supplier's shop — one click when reordering saves the search.
Deliberately no supplier database
There is no supplier management with addresses, terms or purchase orders to the supplier:
- No supplier record — the name is typed freely on each item. As you type, though, Gantway suggests the names already in use; that suggestion list keeps the spellings together so the same supplier does not end up shown three different ways.
- No purchasing system — Gantway creates no purchase orders. You order directly from the supplier; in Gantway only the status per material line item is tracked: To order → Ordered → Delivered (in the to-buy list or on the order).
There is also a Manufacturer field — useful when the manufacturer and the source of supply are not the same (the fitting comes from Häfele, but you buy it from a wholesaler).
Auch bekannt als: supplier, order URL, source of supply, manufacturer, ordering.