Add a Suppliers Table to Your Inventory Database

Topic at a glance

If you’ve followed the steps in the preceding topic, your inventory database contains all the tables you need to store product information. But suppose that you need to add information about the suppliers who make your products. You can create a new table with the Table Wizard and then connect this table to other tables in the database so that you can combine information from your tables in different ways.

To complete the steps in this topic   you need Microsoft Office, Professional Edition or an individual copy of Microsoft Access installed. You also need to create the Products and Categories tables, as described in Move a Product List into Microsoft Access. However, you can follow the basic steps in this topic to add any table to a database.