# Supplier types

Supplier types provide a method of arbitrarily grouping each of your Suppliers into one or more customisable categories. Each supplier that you create must be assigned as a supplier type, but there are no restrictions on which supplier type you assign to each supplier.

Allowing users to define their own supplier types ensures that suppliers can be grouped by any criteria in order to meet your requirements. Some common examples of supplier types may include Local and Import, Wholesalers and Retailers or suppliers of different product types.

Regardless of the methodology you choose to implement with your supplier types, you will now have the ability to quickly and easily differentiate between your suppliers on both the supplier form and in any supplier based reports.

Features

- An unlimited number of supplier types can be defined
- Supplier types can be created to suit your exacting requirements
- Complete control over the level of supplier type granularity
- Easily group any supplier based reports by specified supplier types

Supplier types form

Module: Supplier types.

Activation: Main > Accounts payable > Setup > Supplier types.

Special actions available for users with Administrator permissions:

- None

Database rules:

- A Supplier type cannot be deleted if it has been used by any of the following:
  - Supplier

Field definitions

List of Supplier types

References: List, Read-only

This list displays the codes of all Supplier types that have been defined in your Accentis Enterprise system. As you click on each entry in the Supplier type list, the details for that Supplier type are shown in the area to the right.

The list of supplier types is non-editable and serves only as a display and selection method. When you are ready to edit or delete a Supplier type, ensure that you have the desired Supplier type selected in the list before clicking on the edit or delete button.

Supplier type code

References: Text(16), Mandatory, FlexiCode

This is a short code that is used to identify the Supplier type throughout Accentis Enterprise. There are no restrictions on the types of codes you choose for your Supplier types, although it is recommended that codes which can be easily identified by all users are used for clarity (e.g. Local and Import rather than 001 and 002).

Supplier type name

References: Text(64)

The Supplier type name represents a longer form name of the Supplier type, allowing you add a little more descriptive text than the Supplier type code field.

Supplier type notes

References: Memo, Expandable

The Supplier type notes field allows any notes or details related to the Supplier type to be stored. There are no restrictions on the data that you choose to enter in this field.

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