Approved Supplier List

Your procurement organization can use an approved supplier list to track suppliers that are authorized to supply critical items and services. The data can be maintained for a particular procurement BU or a specific ship-to organization within a procurement BU.

Set up the approved supplier list based on how your organization approves and tracks authorized supply sources. Create list entries based on:

• an item and a supplier

• an item and a supplier site

• a category and a supplier

• a category and a supplier site

Each entry can have supplier-item or supplier-category ordering attributes specified on the procurement BU or ship-to organization levels.

You can use the Manage Approved Supplier List Entries task, in the Purchase Agreements and Purchase Orders work areas, to do the following:

• Manage a list of suppliers, supplier sites, manufacturers or distributors that are either authorized for, or restricted from, supplying critical items or categories.

• Define a supplier list entry to apply to a single ship-to organization, or across ship-to organizations serviced by a procurement BU.

• Enable automated buying for purchase orders by specifying ordering requirements, such as minimum order amount, on an approved supplier list entry.

• Maintain references to source agreement documents.

• Set dates for periodic reviews of approved supplier list entries to verify supplier qualifications.

• Maintain approved supplier list entries to reflect the current business status with suppliers.

You can use the Manage Agreements task, in the Purchase Agreements and Purchase Orders work areas, to do the following:

• Create approved supplier list entries automatically from blanket agreements, to establish the supplier as an approved supply source.