Who you buy from. Short page, one job — and one trap.
The page
Showing for — one venue, or all venues (org view). Suppliers are shared across your organization, so the org view is the real list.
Total suppliers, Active, Catalog items.
Search, or Add Supplier.
The list
Supplier name, how many ingredients they carry, status.
The item count is the useful column. A supplier with 324 items is where your money goes. A supplier with 1 is a one-off delivery that created a supplier and left.
Where they come from
Mostly from invoices. Scan an invoice, NexReps reads the letterhead, and if it does not recognise the name it creates a supplier.
Which is convenient, and it is also the trap.
Duplicates
MOSTO FOODS with 324 items and MOSTO FOODS INC. with 111. GREEN WORLD FOOD EXPRESS INC with 56 and GREENWORLD FOOD EXPRESS INC with 1.
Same company. Two suppliers. Two catalogues. Two halves of your purchase history that will never add up.
This happens because a supplier prints their name slightly differently on one invoice, or someone typed it by hand once. It is nobody's fault and it will happen to you.
Look at this list occasionally. Sort by name and read it. Duplicates sit next to each other alphabetically, which is the one thing that makes them easy to catch.
Why it matters
Price History and Spend by Product work per supplier. Split a supplier in two and both reports split with it — you will see two prices climbing separately instead of one climbing clearly.
Confirming the supplier on an invoice
When you review an invoice, NexReps proposes a supplier. Read it before you validate.
The moment to catch a duplicate is there, in the dropdown, before it exists — not here, after it has forty items attached.
Next
Price History — what your suppliers have been doing to your costs.