Approve Supplier – A summary of the activity

This activity allows you to evaluate supplier audit results and then approve or reject suppliers.

In certain organizations, the suppliers are approved or rejected based on the audit results. Only the approved suppliers will be allowed to then commercially transact with the organizations.

Based on search filters, you can retrieve supplier audits, evaluate the audit results and then decide to approve or reject the suppliers.

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Prerequisites

4 Supplier master data must be set up in the "Supplier" business component

4 Audit reports must be available in the "Quality Audit" business component

4 Parameters under the Supplier category must be defined in the "Purchase Option Settings" activity of "Logistics Common Master" business component

What you can do in this activity

4 Retrieve supplier audits based on criteria including supplier #, name, type, category, SPEC 2000x and audit result

4 Evaluate audit result and approve supplier.

4 Alternately, reject supplier, if audit is overdue or pending.