Suppliers

A supplier is a group or organization that offers goods or services to your company. Vendors are the groups or organizations that you have agreed to purchase goods or services from. When you purchase goods and services from a supplier, you must make them a vendor so that the purchase order and payment process can proceed through your system.

When identifying a parent supplier, you can define up to five supplier levels. During supplier setup, you can link to an existing vendor in Payables.

This table shows the actions available if you require suppliers to be validated:

Actions	Description
Request Validation	Supplier must be validated
Validate	Perform validation
Not Validated	Supplier status changed to Pending Validation
Reject	Supplier status changed to Inactive
Reinstate Supplier	Activates an inactive supplier

You can validate a supplier by using Process Automation. You can use a process server service to send a notification that a supplier must be approved. This process server service is triggered when you select the Request Validation action for a new or updated supplier that requires validation.