Difference between Vendor and Vendor Name in CRM product form

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Dear all,

They has been quite some times where we are wondering what is the difference between Vendor and Vendor name in the product form ?

How do you use those fields in your own business ?

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serge

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Gary Letter 1,267 on at

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The Vendor is the name of the vendor (for example, "Acme Corp"). The Vendor ID is your own unique ID number for that vendor ("ACM001").

The Vendor Name is a bit of a misnomer in that it does not refer to the vendor at all. It is intended to the be unique ID (SKU or part number) by which the vendor identifies the product in their own catalog.

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We actually normally create a "Supplier" entity and relate this to the product. Dynamics CRM does not come with this entity out of the box which to me is a gap.

Another post talks about what they do (which is similar to what I have done in other implementations).

Note - i have also used account as the supplier entity and had a different "relationship type" for this but i had to change a lot of out to the box information / views / etc. so I decided it was easier to create a different entity in most my other implementations.

stackoverflow.com/.../how-do-i-create-a-supplier-in-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2015

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

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For me a Vendor is the same as a Supplier, there is big confusion on that field. In our case in order to qualify a supplier ( Which is a vendor as a whole), we create an account and change the account type to supplier.

Then when we define a product, we use as Vendor Name, the name of the supplier but in fact there is no direct link to the supplier account. I was guessing as well that Vendor field would be productID number of the supplier ( Vendor Name) as ProductID itself is our own internal reference.

What do you think ?

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Gary Letter 1,267 on at

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If you are using the Account entity to track your supplier information, you could create a custom Account lookup field "Supplier" on the Product entity to create the relationship between the Product and the supplier. If you use a view filtered for Account Type = "Supplier" in your lookup, the user can only choose from supplier accounts.

Then you can remove the "Vendor" and "Vendor ID" fields from the Product form, since they will be redundant. The "Vendor Name" field would be unchanged, since it's an attribute of the product, not the supplier.

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RZP 85 on at

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Why is Vendor ID not customizable? There is a customer that needs this field to be business required. I obviously can create a custom field, I just found it odd that it is not customizable.

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