Supplier
Who an item can be bought from, and whether the supplier is approved to supply it.
- suppliers
What it is
Supplier answers “who can we get this from, and may we?” It is a master and assurance service, not a second purchasing system.
It holds the suppliers, their sites and contacts, what each can do (supply, repair, rebuild, inspect, field service) and where each is approved, along with supplier part numbers and lead times for catalogue items. Purchasing owns orders and delivery dates, Inventory owns what arrived, Catalogue owns what an item is, and finance owns invoices and payments.
In the network it gives Purchasing the approved sources for an item, and it carries the supplier numbers that other applications, such as Workforce, use to identify a contractor.
Network testing
This application is part of the Work & Supply Network. It is built to run inside its network, and this standalone copy can be launched on its own. The recorded runs on the network’s page show it working with the others.
System boundaries
Where specialist systems already perform these functions, they can remain in place. DSLCore is intended to hold the governed operational layer around them: workflow, decisions, approvals, actions, evidence and reporting.
This application is in network testing: it is built to run inside its network, and this standalone copy shows it on its own. This is a working demonstration. An implementation would be tailored and validated against your organisation's terminology, controls and systems.