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In ConsignTrak, everything starts with your supply partners — the manufacturers who own the inventory you warehouse on consignment.

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In this video, we'll look at the supply partner list, tour a partner's hub page, and set up a brand-new partner from scratch.

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From the menu, choose Supply Partners.

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Every partner has a code — that short number comes from your legacy system, so long-time staff can keep using the numbers they already know — along with the company name and status.

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Let's open Apex Bearing Company.

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Click anywhere on the row.

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This is the partner hub — one page that answers most questions about a partner.

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Contact details, how many items of theirs you're holding, their recent orders, and their recent activity, all in one place.

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The Inventory card counts every active item this partner has consigned to you.

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View all items jumps straight to the inventory list, already filtered to just their stock.

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Recent Orders shows what's been moving.

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And because supply partners often ask "what happened with our stock this month?", the Activity Report button gives you a filterable, dateable report you can download as a PDF — ready to send along.

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Now let's add a new partner.

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Back on the list, click New supply partner.

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Give them a code and a name.

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The code is short — usually a number carried over from your old system — and the name is the company itself.

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We'll add Blue Ridge Gear Works as partner thirty-four.

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The type tells ConsignTrak how you handle their stock — consigned is the usual arrangement: they own it, you warehouse it.

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Click Create supply partner, and the new hub page is ready — empty for now, but as soon as their first stock transfer arrives, the inventory and activity cards fill in on their own.

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That's supply partners: a code, a name, and a hub page that keeps everything about the relationship one click away.

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Next up: receiving their stock into the warehouse.