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title: How to Structure your Supply Chain
description: Learn how to structure your supply chain by linking organisations as suppliers and customers, ensuring document requests and requirement rules flow correctly.
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# How to Structure your Supply Chain
This article explains how to create supplier relationships and build your supply chain structure.
Setting up your supply chain ensures that:
- Document requests flow correctly
- Requirement rules apply to the right organisations
- You have a clear overview of how organisations are connected
You can build your supply chain either **top-down** (adding sub-suppliers) or **bottom-up** (adding customers).
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### Method 1: Add a Sub-supplier (Top-down)
Use this method when you want to add a supplier underneath another organisation.
### Steps:
1. Go to **Organisations**
2. Open the organisation that should have a sub-supplier
3. Click **Manage supply chain**
4. Select **Add sub-supplier**
5. Search for the correct organisation
6. Click **Add**
The sub-supplier will now appear underneath the selected organisation in the supply chain view.
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### Method 2: Add a Customer (Bottom-up)
Use this method when you want to add a customer above an organisation.
### Steps:
1. Go to **Organisations**
2. Open the organisation that should have a customer
3. Click **Manage supply chain**
4. Select **Add customer here**
5. Search for the correct organisation
6. Click **Add**
The customer will now appear above the selected organisation.
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### Creating Multiple Levels
You can create multiple layers within your supply chain. For example:
Producer → Packhouse → Trader → Retailer
Simply repeat the steps above to add additional layers.
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### Important
- Organisations must already exist in your account before they can be linked.
- The supply chain structure should reflect your real operational flow.
- Correct relationships ensure that requirements and document requests are generated accurately.
Once your structure is created, you can move on to managing and adjusting your supply chain as needed.
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