Manufacturer

object type

A manufacturer — WHO BUILT the product: orthogonal to the Brand (who brands it) and the Vendor (who sold it to the merchant); the vendor-manufacturer linkage is never structural — it materializes per purchase. Carries the default ISO origin country and the characteristic FORMAT MAP (how THIS manufacturer formats serial numbers etc. — entries keyed by Characteristic id). Per-org enablement (OrgManufacturer selection, strictly required before any org reference) arrives.

Fields

Field	Type	Notes
`id`	ID `ID!`	The record’s id — a UUID the platform assigned when the record was created; every reference to this record uses it.
`sysId`	String `String!`	The group-scoped human-facing system id (MF-…).
`type`	String `String!`	The kind of record — always `Manufacturer` here.
`caption`	String `String!`	The record’s display name — what people see it called.
`status`	String `String!`	The FSM state: active \| inactive \| doomed.
`parentId`	ID `ID!`	The parent org group; for a Manufacturer parentId === rootId.
`rootId`	ID `ID!`	The org-group family root.
`createdAt`	String `String!`	When the record was created, as a UTC timestamp.
`updatedAt`	String `String!`	When the record last changed, as a UTC timestamp.
`revisionNum`	Int `Int!`	How many times this record has been edited; the first save is 0.
`revision`	ID `ID!`	The OCC revision token — supply it on every mutation of this record; rotates on every write.
`refCaptions`	RefCaption `[RefCaption!]!`	The server-composed captions of this record's declared references (the referenced-caption rule) — one row per referenced id; see RefCaption.
`origin`	String	Optional DEFAULT ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 origin country; finer granularity is Product-level (future).
`characteristicFormats`	ManufacturerFormatEntry `[ManufacturerFormatEntry!]`	The characteristic format map (<=64 entries, unique per characteristic); absent = no format rules.
`code`	String	Optional mutable merchant reference code; uniqueness NOT enforced (the code stance).

Manufacturer

Fields

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