Multi‑Supplier Management is a new major feature to Retail Express that allows you to assign multiple suppliers to a single product, each with their own pricing and supplier‑specific details. This feature is designed to improve purchasing flexibility, reduce manual price updates, and minimise errors when ordering the same product from different suppliers.
What’s Changing?
Previously, each product in Retail Express could only be linked to one supplier. While products could still be ordered from alternative suppliers, pricing and supplier details often had to be adjusted manually, increasing the risk of mistakes.
Multi‑Supplier Management introduces a structured way to manage all supplier relationships directly against the product, ensuring accurate pricing and supplier details are applied automatically.
Key Capabilities
With Multi‑Supplier Management, you will be able to:
- Assign multiple suppliers to a single product
- Configure supplier‑specific buy prices
- Configure supplier‑specific lead times
- Store supplier‑specific notes
- Configure supplier‑specific SKU2 values (alternative supplier product codes)
- Set one Default Supplier per product
- Automatically inherit the correct pricing when creating Purchase Orders
Default Supplier Behaviour
Each product will continue to have one Default Supplier at all times.
Important:
During rollout, your existing supplier will be automatically migrated and set as the Default Supplier for each product. No action is required.
When the Default Supplier is changed:
- The product’s core supplier fields (Supplier, Buy Price, Lead Time, SKU2 where applicable) are automatically updated to match the newly selected Default Supplier
- Reporting, replenishment, and POS behaviour continue to follow the Default Supplier
Purchase Orders
When creating Purchase Orders, Retail Express will automatically apply pricing based on the selected supplier:
- If the PO supplier matches the product’s Default Supplier, the Default Supplier buy price is used.
- If the PO supplier matches an alternative supplier, that supplier’s buy price is used.
- If the PO supplier is not listed against the product, the Default Supplier price is used as the best known value.
This reduces manual price adjustments and ensures consistent purchasing behaviour.
What’s Included?
This feature focuses on enabling end‑to‑end supplier management at the product level, including:
- Managing multiple suppliers against a product via the edit product page.
- Bulk upload and download tools for supplier maintenance using csv files.
- Supplier‑aware pricing behaviour on Purchase Orders
- API endpoints for configuring Product‑Supplier relationships
- Optionally include additional suppliers when Duplicating a Product