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title: "Supplier Management Software for Catering Kitchens | Havenue"
description: "A supplier record that governs ordering, not a contact card: preferred channel, lead time, delivery days and minimum order, with a real product catalog of packs and prices and price history kept forever. A price move becomes a reviewed change to your dish costs, or it waits for you."
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markdown: https://havenue.co/features/supplier-management.md
language: en
last_updated: 2026-07-27
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# When a supplier moves a price, you know which dishes it broke

Havenue holds the rules that decide what an order looks like: how they take one, how long they take to deliver, which days they deliver and what they will not go below. It obeys all four, so an order is right before anybody sends it.

Most systems store a supplier phone number. Havenue stores the rules that decide what an order looks like: preferred channel, order cut-off, lead time, delivery days and minimum order value. Underneath sits a real catalog of what that supplier actually sells you, priced by the pack, with every price they have ever charged kept beside it.

## The problem this solves

Your supplier put cream up 12% in March. How many of your set menus are underpriced right now? Today that question costs an afternoon, so most kitchens never ask it. The new price lives on a PDF in somebody's inbox, the dish cost lives in a spreadsheet, and nothing joins the two until the P&L says something is wrong.

## How it works

1. **Set the rules once** : Preferred channel, order email, cut-off time, lead time in days, delivery weekdays, minimum order value. The ordering engine obeys them from then on.
2. **Build the catalog** : Import the price list, or grow it row by row from an approved invoice. A supplier sells a 12 kg case, not "salmon", and Havenue models it that way.
3. **Confirm what links to what** : Connect a supplier product to the ingredient your kitchen uses. Confirmed links are what drive suggested orders, receiving and cost review.
4. **Review price moves** : A new price waits in Costs until somebody accepts it. Accept one, accept everything inside your tolerance, or leave it and make a phone call.

## What you get

- **One answer to "who supplies this?"** : It used to be recorded in two places that could disagree. A supplier now means one thing: a confirmed link to a product in their catalog. Every screen reads the same answer.
- **Price history, kept forever** : Beside the percentage sits a small line showing the shape of the move. A price that crept up and a price that spiked and came back read identically as a percentage and mean completely different things.
- **Bulk import that shows its working** : Import your suppliers from a spreadsheet, then their price lists. Havenue matches products to your ingredients and shows every proposed action before committing the reviewed batch in one go.
- **Alerts that reach someone who can act** : A product moving past your threshold notifies the right people, with a link to the screen that does something about it.
- **Packs, not guesses** : Name, code, pack size, pack price, currency and availability, per product. The pack is what you actually buy, so the pack is what Havenue prices.
- **Ordering rules the engine obeys** : Lead time, delivery weekdays, cut-off and minimum order are not notes on a card. They decide what tomorrow's suggested order looks like.

## Who this is for

- Head chefs
- Purchasing managers
- Operations managers
- Finance
- Multi-site teams