Your Suppliers

What Your Suppliers shows

Your Suppliers is one of the five analytical tabs inside the Materials aspect deck. Where Price vs Peers asks "is my price high or low against operators like you," Your Suppliers asks a narrower, more actionable question: who do you actually buy each material from, what does each of them charge you per unit, and would moving that volume to a supplier you already use save you real money. It is built entirely from your own invoices and your own vendor list, not from peer data, so it works from your very first identified supplier onward.

Where to find it

Open Materials from the sidebar. The route is /materials. On the Materials home, the second tile in the Explore row is Your Suppliers, shown in violet. Clicking it, or any other Explore, Take Action, or Market context tile, opens the aspect deck as an in-page overlay (no navigation away from /materials) landed on the tab you clicked. The five deck tabs, left to right, are Price vs Peers, Your Suppliers, Spend Mix, Market Context, and Biggest Gaps.

The Explore tile itself reads a single number: how many materials on your account have more than one supplier identified on your invoices, which is exactly the set of materials where a "cheaper" comparison is possible.

What each row shows

The tab opens with this intro line:

Who you buy each material from, and what you pay them per unit. When more than one supplier carries a material, the cheaper one is marked.

Below it is one block per material, and only materials where at least one supplier has been identified appear here at all. Unlike Price vs Peers, these are not grouped into collapsible material families: every qualifying material gets its own block, in a flat list, so a large supplier list can run long.

Each block has a header row with the material's name (its canonical name, the same standard entry used everywhere else in Materials) and, when a peer benchmark is unlocked and exists for that material, a right-aligned reference figure reading something like "cohort $14.20/Sheet". That figure is the same peer median shown on Price vs Peers, repeated here purely for context so you can weigh your own supplier spread against what operators like you pay overall. When peer pricing is not unlocked, or no cohort exists for that material, this reference is simply omitted, not shown as zero.

Underneath the header, one row per supplier for that material:

• Supplier name, pulled from your own vendor list (the same vendors you see elsewhere in the platform), not a peer or industry name.
• cheapest, a small uppercase label in the Deere Green expand-signal color, shown only when a material has more than one supplier and this one ties for the lowest price among them.
• Price per unit, your median price at that supplier, formatted the same way as every other number in Materials: cents are shown on sub-$100 unit prices (so a per-sheet or per-gallon price reads as, for example, $12.45), and larger figures round to whole dollars or compact to "k" / "M." The unit itself is humanized (Gallon, Sheet, Each, Box, Pound, Roll, Sq Ft, Sq Yd, Square, Linear Ft, Quart, Pail, Bag, Tube, Bundle, and so on) rather than shown as a raw code.
• [$X]/yr to switch, in Ember Red, shown only when there is a real, positive dollar gap between what you pay this supplier and your best available alternative. A supplier with no gap simply has no figure here, it does not show "$0."

Suppliers within a block are sorted cheapest first, so the supplier carrying the cheapest label always sits at the top and your most expensive supplier for that material sits at the bottom, the two you would actually want to compare side by side.

Materials themselves are ordered with the biggest real switch opportunity first, so the block worth acting on is always at the top of the tab.

How the switch-impact figure is calculated

The dollar figure next to a supplier is an annualized estimate of what moving that supplier's volume to a cheaper option would be worth, using only real numbers already on your account:

1. 1Verinode takes the actual quantity you bought from that supplier over the tracked period, in the material's own unit.
2. 2It compares your price at that supplier to your best available alternative for the same material: the cheapest of your other suppliers for it, if you have more than one.
3. 3If you only have one identified supplier for that material, the best available alternative falls back to the peer cohort median instead, when a peer benchmark is unlocked and one exists.
4. 4If that supplier is already at or below the best alternative, or there is no alternative to measure against, the switch-impact figure does not appear at all.
5. 5Otherwise, the gap per unit is multiplied by the volume from step 1 to produce the annual dollar figure shown.

Empty state

If no material on your account has an identified supplier yet, the tab reads exactly:

"Your suppliers appear here as invoices identify who you buy each material from. Once two or more suppliers show up for the same material, you will see which one is cheaper."

How Verinode identifies your suppliers

There is no manual "add a supplier" step to fill this tab in. Verinode reads the supplier name off every invoice and bill you already send it, matches it to one of your own vendor records, and links that vendor to whichever canonical material the line item was matched to. The same three intake paths feed every part of Materials: forwarding a supplier invoice to your Verinode inbound email address, uploading a bill or invoice through Add Data, or connecting QuickBooks so bills sync automatically. See connecting your data for the full picture of how those paths work across the platform.

Related reading

• The Materials section for the full home page, the other four aspect tabs, and the confidence ladder behind every peer figure.
• How benchmarks work for what unlocks the peer median context shown alongside your suppliers.
• Reading a benchmark for how to read a percentile band like the one on Price vs Peers.
• Understanding your margin for how material cost feeds into what you keep on a job.
• Acting on decisions for what happens when a materials opportunity turns into a decision you act on.
• Connecting your data for every way invoices, uploads, and QuickBooks feed Verinode.

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