On Cloud, a "Brand Supplier" rule allows you to assign the default supplier for products of a specific brand. For example, Amazon Business is the default supplier for Samsung-manufactured products.
Setting default suppliers for brands becomes valuable when ordering and helps quickly create purchase orders (POs). Without the brand supplier rule, you will need to manually assign a supplier to products when creating POs.
Here are some things you need to know about brand supplier rules:
The rule is set at the brand level, and it applies only to the products of that brand.
The rule retains the supplier information when the products of the relevant brand are added to quotes.
The rule is automatically applied to the new products of the relevant brand when you add them to the Cloud catalog from the D-Tools Library.
You can change the supplier assigned via the rule before adding the product to the PO.
To apply a brand supplier rule to a brand:
1/ Go to "Settings > Catalog > Brands" in the left navigation menu.
2/ Click the 3-dot menu of a brand for which you want to assign a default supplier.
3/ In the "Default Supplier" tile in the modal, select a supplier and click "Save."
This will apply the rule to the products of the brand you add to the catalog in the future.
4/ To apply this rule to the products of the brand currently in the catalog, click the "Apply to all products now" button. This button will show the number of products of this brand to which the supplier will be assigned via this rule.
5/ Repeat steps 1 to 4 for all brands that require the supplier rule.
You can also apply a brand supplier rule to a brand from the catalog. Click the 3-dot menu of the product and click "Create brand price rule." You will see the same modal as above for applying a default supplier and applying the supplier rule to new and existing products.
