for the supplier problem, we just use a typeahead/combobox component.
but for raw materials, we auto-generate the ids like this: https://x.com/barbinbrad/status/1947682873416221184
also working on some agents: https://x.com/barbinbrad/status/1903047303180464586
would love to talk, i'm brad@carbon.ms
Nice! Yeah, a typeahead works to a degree. I imagine that's searching their own instance vs calling out to a standardized DB you manage?
Raw materials is definitely a different animal, so auto-generating definitely works. I know a company where that's all they do - they manually pour over supplier specs to get all the model names.
Agent approach looks super cool. I see the supplier search piece happening there.
We've mapped out ~265M+ businesses globally. We're thinking about this as a data infra angle where products can tap into our system to access all the world's businesses. We're getting requests for processing millions of ERP records to clean/standardize, plus semantic supplier search across our full dataset.
I'll shoot you an email to chat more.
thanks! look forward to talking to you
This is interesting but what about non standard items? There are plenty of cases where the raw material might theoretically have the same name, but was made with a different process by each manufacturer or the resulting item from different manufacturers has slightly diverged for various reasons.
for that we use "batch" tracking with batch properties