vendor ability to transfer sumup order to another vendor (SPMV supply chain)

  • Resolved boblib

    (@boblib)


    1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Hi, within the logic of same product multi vendors, I would like to know if it is possible for a vendor who receives a customer order, to easily create a new sum-up order for buying from another vendor the same goods he is asked himself to deliver to several buyers. (in other words the vendor will provision all the goods from another vendor and then sell them to the final buyers.)

    We need this function to set up for instance a network of friends for bulk buying, and distributing by small steps to more local places :
    For instance, the central vendor place proposes to sell 20kg of rice and 50 kg of flour directly from a producer, and in several villages some people order 2 or 3 kg of each to their local “seller” friend in the village who acts as an intermediate vendor (and they simply pay to him for instance in cash or else). This intermediate vendor buys again all the quantity for his village to an other large intermediate vendor (in large town for instance). And that large intermediate vendors gathers several medium orders from many villages buyers, and buy the total needed to supply all the orders to the main central vendor. At the end the main central vendor has only a few large orders to supply, which will be dispatched in steps to all the towns and then villages. All the complexity of the accounting being taken care by the multivendorX plugin. This would help a lot to reduce intermediary costs, and also to pay fair prices to the producers.

    Thank you for your brilliant plugin.

    • This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by boblib.
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  • Plugin Support mouindi

    (@mouindi)

    Hi,

    Thank you for your inquiry and for the thoughtful use case you’ve described.

    In MultiVendorX, each vendor operates independently, meaning each vendor manages their own products and sales. The structure you are describing, where a vendor acts as an intermediary and purchases products from another vendor to fulfill orders for local buyers, isn’t natively supported.

    In MultiVendorX, when a user purchases a product, it’s tied directly to the vendor offering that product, and the admin earns a commission on each sale. Each vendor handles their own products and sales separately, so the functionality of bulk buying and reselling across multiple vendors as intermediaries would require significant customization beyond the core features of the plugin.

    That said, depending on your needs, custom development could potentially create a workflow similar to what you’re describing. If you’re interested in exploring this route, we can discuss the possibilities with our team or a development partner.

    We appreciate your support of MultiVendorX and are happy to assist with any other queries you might have.

    Regards,
    Moumita

    Thread Starter boblib

    (@boblib)

    OK, thanks for your reply. I will reflect on all this.

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