Attach the supplier's PDF to the purchase invoice, the signed POD to the shipment, the contract to the customer. Drag it from your desktop.
Show FactBoxes, find Attachments (documents), and drag a file onto it, or click the count to open the list and use Import. Attachments on a sales or purchase document are copied to the posted documents automatically (there is a setting in Sales & Receivables / Purchases & Payables Setup to control it). The incoming document feature goes further: an email or file dropped into Incoming Documents can be turned into a purchase invoice with the attachment linked, which is what the OCR and Payables Agent features build on.
Keep it to documents about the record; a scanner feeding every delivery note into the database fills the storage allowance (attachments post).