Suppliers

A supplier is anyone you buy from. Stokk creates a supplier row for each vendor synced from your ERP and gives you a per-supplier page for planning and ordering.

The list

Open Purchasing → Suppliers. You'll see one row per supplier with a few quick stats: SKU count, value on hand, lead time, and the most recent Morning Brief decision.

Supplier detail

Click a row to open the supplier page. The layout is a single scroll, not tabs:

• Header: supplier name, code, status badges.
• Contact info: email, phone, account contact.
• Structured config: lead time, order day, MOQs, payment terms, reliability score. Editable inline.
• SIF knowledge: freeform markdown. See SIFs.
• Order schedule: the supplier's cadence (weekly, monthly, quarterly…), lead time, and any closed periods. A 3-month calendar shows the upcoming order dates with closures shaded; the order before a closure is automatically sized to carry through it. You can also set all of this by telling the SIF assistant.
• Purchase orders: open and historical POs to this supplier.
• Product mappings: every SKU sourced from this supplier, in the same grid as Inventory: open/closed tabs, sort/filter, add or reorder columns (stock, cover, sales, supplier cost…), and an editable order multiple. The Status column toggles a SKU open or closed at the warehouse inline, just like Inventory; closed SKUs drop out of replenishment.
• Stock feed: an optional nightly XML feed of this supplier's stock that you can share with the supplier. See Supplier stock feeds.
• SIF version history: every edit to the SIF, dated and authored.

Adding a supplier

New suppliers come in through ERP sync; you shouldn't normally need to create one manually. If a supplier exists in Stokk before the ERP, it's typically a sync ordering issue rather than something to fix in the UI.

Closing a supplier

Deactivating a supplier in Settings → Suppliers takes them out of replenishment and order suggestions. You can do this even when the supplier is still open in your ERP, which is the usual situation: people stop buying from a vendor long before anyone blocks them in the ERP, if they ever do.

Stokk normally mirrors whatever the ERP says about a supplier being open or closed, and re-checks it on every sync. Once you set the status yourself, your choice wins and the sync stops overwriting it. The supplier list marks those with set in Stokkso you can tell your decisions apart from the ERP's.

To hand control back, use Follow ERP next to the supplier. From the next sync onward, the ERP decides again.