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

## Used by

- [createManufacturer](/reference/manufacturer/createManufacturer/)
- [deactivateManufacturer](/reference/manufacturer/deactivateManufacturer/)
- [doomManufacturer](/reference/manufacturer/doomManufacturer/)
- [manufacturer](/reference/manufacturer/manufacturer/)
- [reactivateManufacturer](/reference/manufacturer/reactivateManufacturer/)
- [updateManufacturer](/reference/manufacturer/updateManufacturer/)