About 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. All vendors are suppliers, but not all suppliers are vendors. When you purchase goods and services from a supplier, you can make them a vendor so that the purchase order and payment process can more easily proceed through your Lawson applications.

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.