To optimize your database storage, you can delete Oracle Payables, Oracle Purchasing, and Oracle Supplier Scheduling records that you no longer need to access online. You can also purge invoices, purchase orders, suppliers, and related records such as invoice payments, supplier schedules, and purchase receipts.
Once a record is purged, you cannot query or view it in the system. However, the system maintains summary information of deleted records to prevent you from entering duplicate invoices or purchase orders.
Note: You should create a special responsibility for purging information from Oracle Payables and Oracle Purchasing and assign this responsibility only to the person responsible for purging information from your database.