I am in this EXACT same boat. I sell chemicals, and my assemblies' part items (raw materials) need to be able to come from different vendors. What is the freakin point of the alternate vendors function if we cannot use a unique part number/description/tradename for that vendor's product!? I just need to be able to stock 1 inventory item from several vendors, all of who sell their products under different tradenames. This seems like it should be a basic function for QuickBooks...
