Understanding Supplier Maintenance

PeopleSoft procurement applications capture and track supplier information to ensure that you can satisfy suppliers by having the answers to their questions at your fingertips. You can enter straightforward or complex supplier definitions that capture an organization's true relationship with a supplier. You can also enter information from conversations with suppliers to manage your contacts more effectively. Even if you have not spoken to a supplier contact for months, your supplier profile enables you to recall details as though you had your last conversation yesterday.

This section discusses:

• Supplier profiles.

• Suppliers in the control hierarchy.

• Supplier locations.

• Supplier definition.

• PeopleSoft eSupplier Connection.

• Supplier relationship management.

• Supplier approval.

• Supplier archiving.

• Single payment suppliers.

• Duplicate supplier checking.

• Supplier audit.