R12 - Merging Suppliers

Use the Supplier Merge program to maintain your supplier records. You can use it to merge duplicate suppliers into a single, consolidated supplier and to merge transactions within the same supplier from one supplier site to a different supplier site. You can choose to merge all transactions for a supplier into a new supplier, or you can just choose to merge unpaid invoices.

Merging suppliers is an irreversible action. You cannot reverse the merge once it has completed. Before you initiate the merge program, you should be sure that the action you want to take is final.

Refer the below screen schot. supplier XXDell is having 2 supplier sire Marina and Sam Francisco. Now we are going to merge Marina supplier site.

Run the Supplier Merge Program :

Navigation : Payables responsibility --> Suppliers --> Suppliers Merge

Select the From and To Information and Click on Merge Button. Once you click on Merge, " Supplier Merge Program " will run in back end.  Once Concurrent program " Supplier Merge Program " was ran succesfully verify the supplier information. Now you can find only one site " San Francisco ".

While merging, we need to decide the effect the merge on existing purchase orders and invoices. 

•         For purchase orders, we need indicate whether we want all or none of the existing purchase orders to be updated with the new supplier/site names by checking or unchecking the PO Check Box.

•         For invoices, we can indicate whether we want all, only unpaid, or none of the invoices to be updated with the new supplier/site names.