WHAT IS A CHAIN?
A chain is a joined up list of organisations that shows the route of a product to market. Within Telus Supply Chain, a chain is the way your supply chain is recorded, and is the method of demonstrating the products, which are supplied to/by you. Each chain can be approved and an expiry date set for the approval.
Chains are the integral structure of the system. In order to demonstrate an organisation is your supplier or customer, it is necessary to have a chain set up demonstrating your organisation’s relationship with the other organisations in question. In order to demonstrate a certain organisation supplies you with a certain product, you need to create a chain with that product travelling from your supplier to your organisation.
The chains you create also determine who you can send tasks to, who can share a file with you and who you can share files with.
CREATE A CHAIN
To create a new supply chain, click on Chains in the menu and then click Add a new chain:
The following chain creation page will appear:
Your organisation will automatically be present in the middle of the chain.
Firstly, add the product(s) that you need to create chain(s) for. If you are a Premium user, you will have access to your own Product list. Otherwise, you will have access to the Products of your customers.
(Optional) You can then choose the type of supply chain you are creating:
Now you can start building your chain. The chain screen moves from left to right to demonstrate that the product start on the left of the screen and end at the final destination on the right of the screen.
To add a supplier, simply click on ‘Add Supplier’:
This will open a box allowing you to type the name of an organisation to add. All organisations in the whole Telus Supply Chain system will be available to select. Start typing the name of the organisation in this box and click on the organisation when it appears:
The organisation will be added into the chain:
To add a customer, click on ‘Add Customer’ and follow the same steps by typing the name of the customer and then clicking it when it appears:
For example:
Please note: If the organisation you wish to add does not appear you will need to create this organisation by following the steps described in Organisations.
Your customer will be added to the chain:
The chain preview will show you how the chain will appears once created.
You can add in further suppliers and further customers into the chain by clicking Add Supplier or Add Customer respectively and following the same steps above.
If you have more than one organisation of origin or destination (for example if multiple growers supply through a supplier group) you can add these in to create multiple chains. Using the example above, if you wanted to add a new grower, simply click Add another origin.
This will bring up an additional box to enter the name of your other supplier. Follow the same steps by typing in the name of the supplier and selecting it. For example:
This will then create an additional new chain with the same product.
When you have finished building your chain click Save: