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Customers and suppliers

# Trading relationship data built for finance operations.

Maintain customer and supplier records with identity, address, contact, intercompany, document, and balance information.

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![Foresight ERP customer and supplier visual showing party directories, contact details, intercompany status, open invoices, balances, import review, and relationship history](https://cdn.foresighterp.com/features/customers-suppliers/core-customers-suppliers-v2.png)

Master data quality

## Start every invoice, order, and allocation with the right party record.

Customers and suppliers are more than names in a lookup. They drive invoices, orders, credit notes, allocations, reporting fields, workflow decisions, and master-data quality.

![Customer context visual showing customer record, sales invoices, orders, deposits, payment status, and balance](https://cdn.foresighterp.com/features/customers-suppliers/core-master-customer-context-v2.png)

### Customer context

Sales invoices, sales orders, credit notes, deposits, payment status, and outstanding balances.

![Supplier context visual showing supplier record, purchase documents, terms, files, and payable balance](https://cdn.foresighterp.com/features/customers-suppliers/core-master-supplier-context-v2.png)

### Supplier context

Purchase invoices, purchase orders, purchase credit notes, supplier terms, and payable balances.

![Master data quality visual showing imports, search, active status, entity scope, and workflow fields](https://cdn.foresighterp.com/features/customers-suppliers/core-master-data-quality-v2.png)

### Data quality

Imports, search, active status, entity scope, and the fields workflows need to find the right party.

Control model

## Apply the right control at each stage of the finance record.

![Customer and supplier control visual showing entity scoped master data boundaries](https://cdn.foresighterp.com/features/customers-suppliers/core-master-control-scope-v2.png)

Scope

### Entity-scoped master data

Customer and supplier records stay inside the entity context that owns the finance activity.

![Customer and supplier control visual showing find, create, and validate workflow inputs before invoice or order drafting](https://cdn.foresighterp.com/features/customers-suppliers/core-master-control-use-v2.png)

Use

### Reusable workflow inputs

Workflows can create, find, or validate customers and suppliers before records are drafted.

![Customer and supplier control visual showing party identifiers flowing to reports, invoices, orders, and allocations](https://cdn.foresighterp.com/features/customers-suppliers/core-master-control-report-v2.png)

Report

### Relationship reporting context

Customer and supplier names and identifiers remain available to reports, invoices, orders, and allocation views.

Ready for the next finance process

## Core finance data that stays useful after the transaction is done.

Cleaner document creation

Invoices and orders start from usable party data instead of manual rekeying.

Better relationship visibility

Balances, open documents, and trading history remain connected to each party.

Fewer master-data gaps

Imports, validation, and controlled edits reduce downstream finance cleanup.

![Customer and supplier operating result visual showing validated party records feeding invoices, orders, balances, and reports](https://cdn.foresighterp.com/features/customers-suppliers/core-master-result-v2.png)

Customers and suppliers

## Make customer and supplier data finance-ready.

Use Foresight ERP to keep finance operations connected to the workflows, reports, close processes, and controls that depend on them.

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