Built by Centra
Overview
The Supplier Module brings your entire purchasing workflow into Centra, so you can place orders with manufacturers and track deliveries without leaving the platform.
Start by setting up each of your suppliers with contact details, preferred warehouse, currency, and payment and shipping terms. Connect products to suppliers, add purchase prices manually or via bulk import, and capture custom fees so your cost data stays accurate from day one.
When it's time to order, the supplier list shows real-time demand — units your customers have ordered but you haven't yet placed with a supplier — so you always know what needs to be purchased and from whom. Create orders based on this demand, link them to specific customer orders for full traceability, or build manual selections for forecast-based purchases. Each order captures ETA, delivery address, payment and shipping terms, and can be exported as a PDF to send to your supplier.
When goods arrive, register the inbound delivery against the original purchase order. Record actual received quantities, add shipping and other costs, and distribute them across items by unit price or weight to calculate accurate landed cost per variant. Linked customer orders are automatically allocated stock on delivery, and any surplus goes into your free stock — keeping inventory, customer fulfillment, and cost data in sync. Underdeliveries and overdeliveries are handled with explicit completion steps so nothing falls through the cracks.
The Supplier Module replaces spreadsheets and email threads with a single, structured process — giving merchandisers, buyers, and operations teams a shared source of truth for everything happening upstream of your warehouse.