The relationship between suppliers and buyers

The Measures for the Administration of Fair Trade of Retailers' Suppliers stipulates that suppliers refer to enterprises and their branches and individual industrial and commercial households that directly provide goods and corresponding services to retailers, including manufacturers, distributors and other intermediaries. Or "manufacturer", that is, an individual or legal person who supplies goods. Suppliers can be farmers, production bases, manufacturers, agents, wholesalers (limited to level 1), importers, etc. Too many intermediate suppliers should be avoided. For example: secondary wholesalers, distributors, leather bag companies (profiteers), or companies run by relatives and friends.

The broad definition of buyer is: in order to ensure the normal development of enterprise production and business activities, enterprises need to obtain products or services from the supply market as enterprise resources under certain conditions, and enterprises are called buyers when carrying out such activities.