What is in the Supply app - Pacten Guides

2026-08-24

Supply is the widest app in the platform, so it is grouped rather than listed. Open it and the rail shows three groups, with the Dashboard above them and the Activity log below.

THE THREE GROUPS

What each one is for

Pick the group by the question you are asking.

Warehouse — what you physically have and what has just arrived. Inventory, Receive, Deliveries, Bin Card and Stock Count.
Purchasing — what you have ordered from suppliers. Purchase Orders.
Imports — goods on their way in from abroad, and what they really cost once landed. Consignments, Landed Cost and Profitability.

Dashboard sits above the groups as the way in, and Activity sits below them as the way to look back. Activity is deliberately outside all three, because it is a record across Warehouse, Purchasing and Imports rather than part of any one of them.

THE USUAL PATH

How the pieces connect

Most stock arrives along one of two routes.

You order it

Purchasing → Purchase Orders. Raise the order, get it approved, send it to the vendor.

Or it is shipped in

Imports → Consignments, for goods coming from abroad with freight, duty and clearing costs attached.

It arrives

Warehouse → Receive. Book in what actually turned up, against the purchase order or the consignment.

It is on the shelf

Warehouse → Inventory shows the live position; Bin Card shows how one item got there.

You check it

Warehouse → Stock Count, when what is on the shelf and what the system says have drifted apart.

Tip

Deliveries is not a duplicate of Receive. Receive is the act of booking something in; Deliveries is where the saved goods receipt notes live afterwards, so you can reopen or print one.

WHO SEES WHAT

Permissions

Not everyone needs all of it.

Supply is permission-gated section by section, so a storekeeper can be given Receive and Stock Count without seeing purchase order values or import costs. Settings itself is owner and admin only.

Activity is deliberately outside Settings for that reason — the people creating the entries are usually collaborators, and putting the trail behind an admin-only screen would hide it from exactly them.

Start with purchasing

Draft, approve, send — and what each status means.

Purchase orders →