About suppliers

A supplier represents the company or organization with which you are negotiating a contract. A supplier can include an Accounts Payable vendor, manufacturer, or distributor.

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

If you require suppliers to be validated, the following actions are available:

• Request Validation - supplier needs to 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 also validate (approve) a supplier by using Process Server Automation. Specifically, you can use a Process Server service to send a notification that a supplier needs to be approved. This Process Server service is triggered when you select the Request Validation action for a new or updated supplier that requires validation. For more information, see the Strategic Sourcing, Contract Management, and Supplier Order Management Administration Guide.