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title: "Working with Manufacturers"
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# Working with Manufacturers

Quantify enables you to create a list of manufacturers whose products your organization uses. Once created, you appropriately assign manufacturers as necessary.

## Adding a Manufacturer to a Product or Consumable

Before you can assign a manufacturer to a Product or Consumable, you must enter that manufacturer's name into your Quantify database, through the Product Catalog or the Consumable Catalog. The procedures in this section of Quantify Help show you how to do that.

> **Note:** The procedures in this section use the Product Catalog. However, they also work in the Consumables Catalog as well.

To add a manufacturer:

1. Click **Product Catalog**. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-BJ0905GP.png) The *Product Catalog* appears.
2. Click the **Items** dropdown and select **Manufacturers**. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/fe7d5099-1b20-444d-81be-3e4b5033d29d.png) The *Manufacturers* dialog appears.
3. Click the **Add** button ( ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/c6c3cc94-2ae7-412b-8968-2e52f51615ba.png)). ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/91e83266-0f20-4554-85d5-38bbe73b1981.png) The *Manufacturer* dialog appears.
4. Click in the **Name** text field and enter the manufacturer's name.
5. Click in the **Description** text field and enter a short description of the manufacturer. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/0bd34c79-de8c-43e0-860e-0d365dbf2b3a.png)
6. Click **OK**. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/c5c3d514-1838-4bd7-81b1-402d7c39344d.png) The *Manufacturers* dialog returns with the added manufacturer. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/6736a5e0-c6ea-4f49-9687-5f9eedff3acb.png)
7. Repeat the above three steps as necessary.
8. When you are done, click **Close** in the *Manufacturers* dialog. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/9db729ee-69e5-409b-b6de-6044d84e5e6b.png)

## Deleting a Manufacturer

Once entered, Quantify enables you to delete a Manufacturer at any time.

> **Note:** The procedures in this section uses the *Product Catalog*. However, they also work in the *Consumable Catalog* as well.

To delete a manufacturer:

1. Click **Product Catalog**. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-OXL5CJJ0.png) The *Product Catalog* appears.
2. Click the **Items** dropdown and select **Manufacturers**. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/fe7d5099-1b20-444d-81be-3e4b5033d29d.png) The *Manufacturers* dialog appears.
3. Click the manufacturer you want to delete, then click the **Delete** button ( ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/a678f4af-7a50-4bff-aad5-0b9984fbde40.png)). ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-72V2ZZHK.png) A confirmation dialog appears. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-XWFJQY3B.png)

Click **Yes**. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-SJ0OP8G8.png)

Quantify deletes the manufacturer.