Suppliers & Purchase Items
Centralize your supplier data, purchase formats, and price lists to ensure accuracy and efficiency across your operations. Learn how to register suppliers, import catalogs, link items to products, and manage purchase formats — all from a single, connected platform.
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- Create suppliersAdd and manage suppliers in tspoonlab: register commercial details, delivery terms, and payment info to centralize sourcing.
- Import suppliers in bulkSet up your database fast by bulk-importing suppliers in tspoonlab with the official XLSX template in just a few seconds.
- What is a supplier price list in tspoonlab and how do you use it?Upload supplier price lists in tspoonlab to update supplier item prices in bulk and keep recipe costing and order templates up to date.
- Unit of measurement vs. purchase formatUnderstand unit of measurement vs. purchase format in tspoonlab to structure ingredients and keep recipe costings accurate.
How to associate generic ingredients with supplier items
Learn how to associate generic ingredients with supplier purchase items
- Associate supplier items with generic ingredients when receiving a delivery noteAssociate supplier items with generic ingredients in tspoonlab when you receive a delivery note, so each code is recognised next time.
- Associate supplier items with generic ingredients from the Supplier PageAssociate supplier items with generic ingredients from the Supplier Page in tspoonlab to speed up AI document scanning.
- Associate supplier items from the generic ingredientAssociate supplier items from the Ingredient Page in tspoonlab to see every supplier of an ingredient, with each item's code and format.
- Associate supplier items using a price listAssociate supplier items with generic ingredients using price lists in tspoonlab to keep templates, orders and recipe costing up to date.
- Switch an associated supplier item between bulk and a purchase formatFix the purchase format of an associated supplier item in tspoonlab, moving it from bulk or units to a format, or the other way round.
How to transfer suppliers to other cost centers
Guide to assigning the same supplier to multiple cost centres. Learn the differences between sharing, copying, and replicating supplier records to streamline the management of new restaurants without duplicating manual work.
- Share suppliers between Cost CentresShare suppliers. across several Cost Centres in tspoonlab so contact details, prices and terms update everywhere at once.
- Replicate suppliers between Cost CentresReplicate suppliers from a parent Cost Centre to child Cost Centres in tspoonlab: turn replication on, update and break the link.
- Copy suppliers between Cost CentresCopy a supplier to another Cost Centre in tspoonlab: create an independent copy with no link to the original supplier.