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Supplier feeds

Where: Operations → Supplier feeds

Operations → Supplier feeds keeps your availability honest when stock actually sits with suppliers. A feed either pulls stock data from the supplier’s system on a schedule or lets the supplier push it to you.

Figure: Operations → Supplier feeds — pull/push stock connectors with safety buffers

Operations → Supplier feeds — pull/push stock connectors with safety buffers

  1. Press “New feed”.
  2. Fill in: Supplier (vendor), Feed name, Mode — “Pull (we fetch)” or “Push (supplier sends)” — and Format (JSON / CSV / EDI 846). Pull feeds also take an Endpoint URL and an optional Authorization header.
  3. Set the safety knobs: Safety buffer (units withheld) — units you never promise, in case the supplier’s number is stale; Default lead time (days); Stale after (minutes) — when to stop trusting old data; Sync every (minutes); and Active.
  4. Per-feed actions: “Sync now” (toast “Synced — N matched, N skipped”) for pull feeds, or “Push URL” for push feeds — the dialog “Supplier push URL” warns: “Share this private URL with the supplier… keep it secret.”