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, with each item's Supplier, Origin, Supplier data and Climate figure. Search by name, code, GTIN or supplier, or filter by Category.
Supplier data says where each item stands: Full footprint, Partial footprint, Climate only or Custom data once you have their figures; Requested, Awaiting your review, Answered, not accepted yet, Declined or Request lapsed while you are asking; No data yet before you have asked. A newer answer is waiting and Expired: ask again flag items to look at.
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 find and use supplier data?
Asking for data
From an item's menu, Request data for this item, or Request data for everything from its supplier (up to 500 items). Each answer comes back to the item it is for; accept it in the Inbox with Accept this data. See How do I request data from a supplier?
To match
Data a supplier shared without being asked about a particular item waits under To match. 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 listing replaces it and the earlier one stays in its history.
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, Not asked yet, Asked, not connected yet or Asked by email), the listings they have shared, the figures you have entered and the requests waiting on them.
- Add supplier: their name, an email for requests and refreshes, 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, request data or see their listings.