1.5 Supplier Relationships - Creating your Supply Chain

The 4 pillars of Agriplace Supply Chain Approval:

1. Organisations – You are still here
2. Documents
3. Products portfolio
4. Requirements

This is relevant if you have uploaded organisations one by one. Thus, if you did not import the organisations in bulk. Or did not fill in the “Is the supplier of” column in Excel when doing the organisation import in bulk.

If you have filled in the "is supplier of" column in the Excel sheet during the “Organisation import in bulk in Step 1.2,” your sub-supplier overview will look like this as you can see under Apple farm there are sub-suppliers listed like Apple grower – D001, Apple grower – D004 etc.…

Disclaimer: please skip this step if your suppliers have already been imported to Agriplace using the import services offered.

Or toggle on the supply chain view then, if you see the downward arrow showing supply chain relations.

Now let's set-up your suppliers' supply chains!

All suppliers have been imported to Agriplace. Under “All organisations” you can now see the results. An overview may look like this:

We see 3 distinct types in this example. Producer, plot, and trader. For you, as a user, it seems straightforward what the connection between these organisations is. The system does not have that insight yet. Therefore, we must provide the system with this insight and create a clear supply chain structure.

To create your supply chain; there are 5-7 steps in this stage of setting up your account.

In this scenario, we want to add 'Fruit Co.' and 'Apple grower – D001' as sub-supplier of 'Apple Farm'.

Step 1: Organisations -> All organisations ->

Step 2: If you click on the organisation ‘Apple farm’ you should see the image below.

Now you are on the organisation info page -> click supply chain on the right.

Step 3: On the supply chain tab, we can choose to add sub-suppliers. Sub-suppliers are organisations that you would like to categorize under the selected organisation. An example would be producers. We can also choose here to select Customers.

Customers would be the organisations above the selected organisation.

For example, we will be adding sub-suppliers. The selection is therefore already in the correct format.

-> Select “Add sub-supplier(s)”

Step 4: In the next screen we can now select the sub-suppliers we want to fall under this organisation. We can do this manually by searching for each organisation one by one or we
can use the “tags” function.
-> Search the organisation(s) you want to add either manually as is done in the
example or by searching for the relevant tags. Secondly, select the organisation by clicking the checkbox. Finally, press the “+add” button to add the organisation to the supply chain of this organisation.

Step 5: The result should look like this. We have set up the first step in the supply chain for “Apple farm”.

We will set up the supply chain one level deeper for ‘Apple grower – D001’ organisation.
-> Click on the added organisation, in this example “Apple grower – D001” and navigate to the subsequent “supply chain” tab.
-> To see our recently added “customers” click on the customer tab.

You can see that Apple grower -D001 has Apple farm as a customer since we just added that.

Do you wish to add a customer to that organisation?

Then repeat what we did for the sub-suppliers -> click on ->+ADD Customer

Step 6: Click on the organisation we want to add. We will now add Berry farm since Apple farm also buys from Berry farm.

Click “add customer(s).”

Step 7: I have tagged the next level of organisations with the name of the organisation I would like to attach them to.

Searching for the specific tag will result in a filtered selection with
the relevant organisation. After selecting them I press “+add” to add the organisations to my supply chain.

Congratulations! This is how you set up your supply chain in Agriplace SCA (Supply Chain Approval).