On a plan without raw material management, the Registry keeps your purchasing list itself: Registry > Purchased raw materials and Registry > Suppliers. On Footprinting and above, the same list lives in Supply chain > Raw materials.
Purchased raw materials
The Items tab lists what you buy: each item with its Product code (your purchased goods code), Supplier code, Supplier data, Supplier, Origin and Climate figure. Search by name, SKU, GTIN or supplier, and filter by Supplier data (including Needs you) or Category.
Supplier data says where each item stands, in the same words as everywhere else: No supplier data, Asked, Declined, Answer ready, Data available, Update available or Expiring. The item's panel says what their figures cover (Full footprint, Partial footprint, Climate only or Custom data) and flags A newer answer is waiting for you or Expired: ask again.
Click an item to open its panel: what it is (your purchased goods code, GTIN, supplier code, supplier and origin), what your supplier sent, and the history of your requests about it.
Adding items
- Import items: a CSV with one item per row. purchased goods code, name and supplier are required; supplier email, gtin, supplier code, kind, category and origin are optional. Check file shows what will happen to each row before anything is added. Suppliers you already have are matched by name and the rest are added; importing again updates items by their code. Up to 5,000 items and 5 MB.
- Add an item: one item, with its name, your code if you have one yet, a category and its supplier.
- Enter supplier data: figures a supplier already sent you in a document, with the document attached. See How do I keep supplier data current?
Asking for data
From an item's menu, Ask for data about this item, or Ask for everything from its supplier (up to 500 items). Each answer comes back to the item it is for; use it from the item's panel or Registry > Supplier engagement. See How do I ask a supplier for data?
Unassigned
Data a supplier shared without being asked about a particular item waits under Unassigned. Where it looks like one of your items (the same GTIN, the same supplier code, or a similar name from the same supplier), the suggestion says so: Put it there. Otherwise use Match to an item, or Add as a new item. If the item already has data, the new data replaces it and the earlier data stays in its history.
An answer you put on an item from Unassigned shows the ask it answers. Figures a supplier shared or offered, once on an item, close the open ask they answer.
Suppliers
Registry > Suppliers lists the suppliers you deal with: those you added, those you are connected to, those you have asked, and those who shared with you. Each row shows where you stand (Connected since a date, with Answers by email for a supplier who answers on the form; Not asked yet, Asked, not connected yet or Asked by email), with columns for Products shared, Entered by you and Waiting on them.
- Add supplier: their name, an email for asks and updates, and what they supply.
- Import suppliers: a CSV with name (required), email and supplies. Suppliers you already have are matched by name and not added twice. Up to 1 MB.
A row's menu lets you enter their data, ask for data or see what they share.