Producers
Producers are used to inform shoppers where products come from and provide information on the people who make them. They are linked to individual products in the "general" tab of the product.
The producer page ("/d/") will list all the products linked to that producer and is accessed by the shopper from the product detail page ("/p/").
Using reports to order from producers
Reports, such as "product summary", can be grouped on producers and therefore used as an instruction to tell a supplier what needs doing for a given date, or date range.