FREE accounts: Creating your Supply Chain

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, this guide will help you to build your Supply Chain.

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 -> “Apple Farm”

Step 2: Now you are on the organisation details 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)” otherwise change to “customer(s)” and click “Add Customer(s)”

Step 4: In the next screen we can now select the sub-suppliers we want to fall under this organisation.
-> 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.

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

Click “add customer(s)” --> choose "Berry Farm" --> add customer

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.

Now if you go back to the All Organisations page and switch to supply chain view, you will see all the connected (sub)-suppliers/customers as shown in the picture below.