Duplicate Supplier Check
When a supplier is created, and during the supplier registration approval process, the application performs checks to avoid adding duplicate suppliers. The matching engine is supported by the Oracle Enterprise Data Quality application which can perform matching checks against all external parties.
You can configure the types of parties to consider for matching, such as suppliers and customers to be checked for similar and exact name matches. For example, if a company exists as a customer, the user is informed so they can decide if the party can be used as a supplier. If selected the existing party is used to establish the supplier.
How it Works
When creating a supplier, you're presented with a list of parties including suppliers with similar or matching names. You can view details of any reported matches and if none of them match the supplier to be created, you can proceed with the supplier creation.
If one of the reported matches is the same supplier, you can cancel the supplier creation process.
During the supplier registration approval process, approvers also see probable supplier matches and reject requests that are found to be duplicates.