A supplier ships us items.
Fields
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
name | non-empty string | Name of the supplier.
This is the key field and a required attribute.
|
description | string | Free format description. |
category | string | Free format category. |
subcategory | string | Free format subcategory. |
owner | resource | Suppliers can be organized in a hierarchical tree.
This field defines the parent supplier.
|
members | list of supplier | Suppliers can be organized in a hierarchical tree.
This field defines a list of child suppliers.
|
available | calendar | Calendar defining the holiday schedule of the supplier.
Procurements will be stretched to account for the
unavailable time.
|
action | A/C/AC/R | Type of action to be executed:
A: Add an new entity, and report an error if the entity
already exists.
C: Change an existing entity, and report an error if the
entity doesn’t exist yet.
AC: Change an entity or create a new one if it doesn’t
exist yet. This is the default.
R: Remove an entity, and report an error if the entity
doesn’t exist.
|
Example XML structures
Adding or changing a supplier
<plan>
<suppliers>
<supplier name="Company X">
<supplieritems>
<supplieritem>
<item name="component A"/>
<leadtime>P10D</leadtime>
</supplieritem>
</supplieritems>
</supplier>
</suppliers>
</plan>
Deleting a supplier
<plan>
<suppliers>
<supplier name="Compnay X" action="R"/>
</suppliers>
</plan>
Example Python code
Adding or changing a supplier
sup_X = frepple.supplier(name="Company X")
Deleting a supplier
frepple.supplier(name="Company X", action="R")
Iterate over suppliers and the items they supply
for r in frepple.suppliers():
print("Supplier:", r.name, r.description, r.category)
for l in r.supplieritems:
print(" Item:", l.item.name, l.leadtime, l.cost)