Filter by supplier when adding a product in the back office

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What is the need/problem?

Currently, adding products to orders in the back office (admin/orders) is possible, but very time consuming in hubs with multiple suppliers who stock the same variants. In this case, searching to add a product returns all the similarly named variants from all suppliers in the given order cycle. The hub manager needs to scroll through the list and find the correct supplier's product to add.

On the bulk order management screen, it is possible to filter by OC and supplier before searching for a variant, making a very efficient process for removing or adding variants already on an order. But if the variant to be added is not already on the order in question, the process on the edit orders screen is cumbersome.

What type of users does this affect (and how many, if known)?

Hub managers who frequently need to add items to orders in the back office.

Potential solutions that could solve the problem?

Add the possibility of filtering by supplier on the admin/orders screen to narrow the search results.

Additional context

Recently, this feature was enabled. It helps tremendously. It is now possible, when adding a variant in the back office, to search the full variant name.

Here is a pretty typical example. This hub manager wants to add a specific type of 'Lisianthus' called "rosanne" to an order. The product is listed by 4 different suppliers, and each listing has 2-3 different unit sizes of Lisianthus - Rosanne. Before the above mentioned search enhancement, this hub manager would have seen a list of 200 "Lisianthus". Now, they can search for "rosanne" and return about 20 options. (This is even if the box to filter for out of stock items is unchecked. If it were checked, the return would list even more variants.)

Orders---OFN-Administration.-.adding.Lisianthus.-.Rosanne.in.back.office.mp4

I don't have a clear design idea - but I wonder if its possible to have a drop down to filter by supplier, just below the box that filters by out of stock products?

I'm less clear on what the dropdown would list: all suppliers to the hub? (could be a really long list of 200 for many hubs...), All suppliers in the order cycle that the order being edited is placed in? (still could be a long list), Or is the variant name search happen first, and then then a drop down is a secondary filter to filter by producers who supply that variant?

One other thought on this... Would it be better to move the entire function of adding variants to orders to the BOM page? (I hesitate becuase thats not a quick win, but maybe its better?)

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