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How can I manage my suppliers' availability?
How can I manage my suppliers' availability?

You can define periods of unavailability for your suppliers.

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Written by Caroline Bries
Updated over a week ago

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For each supplier, you can define periods of unavailability. When outsourcing a job, the system will then tell you if a supplier is available at that moment, which makes it easier to quickly find the right supplier for a job.

To define a period of unavailability for a supplier, you have to click on the Availabilities tab in the supplier's details.

Click then on 'Add an unavailability'. You will be able to define a start and an end date for this unavailability, and also a comment (reason for the unavailability).

This is what it looks like when you add entries:

You can edit or delete an unavailability by clicking on the three dots at the end of the line.

In the Outsourcing tab of the job, when searching for suppliers, the system will indicate if the supplier is available at that moment and until when they're available:


If you're using LSP.expert V1

For each supplier, you can define periods of unavailability. When outsourcing a job, the system indicates if a supplier is available at that moment. Your search for the right supplier for a job is then optimized.

To define a period of unavailability for a supplier, you have to click on the Availability tab in the supplier's details under People > Suppliers (on the left).

You can then easily define a period of unavailability by clicking on the "Add unavailability" button.

This is what it looks like when you add entries:

You can of course delete any of these entries or modify them using the buttons on the right.

In the Outsourcing tab of the job, the system then indicates if the supplier is available at that moment and until when he/she is available:

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