Hi @PamCotton & @TBucciarelli,
You may not need to create a customer object for the suppliers. Our approach would be to use our ‘Backend Admin’ membership portal theme (loaded when you install CommercePro from the Apps Marketplace) in Content Hub to create a supplier portal that enables suppliers to log in and load data into a CRM products object. This information is then used to generate a dynamic product page available to end users of the businesses eCommerce Store (also development in on solution from our theme library). The Supplier contact details would be maintained in the ‘Contacts’ object with associations to products, sold inventory, etc, objects for automation and reporting. Hope this helps.