Use the Supplier Audit Report to help identify potential duplicate suppliers. For example, you enter a supplier named Orion Corporation, and another supplier named Orion Corp. This report lists active suppliers whose names are the same up to a specified number of characters. The report ignores case, spaces, special characters, etc.
You may want to run the report with different parameters to fine tune your search. Specify a length short enough to identify duplicates, such as Comco and Comco, Inc., but long enough to avoid obviously different supplier names, such as General Instruments and General Electric.
The report lists all site names and addresses of each potential duplicate supplier. Payables inserts a blank line between groups of possible duplicate suppliers. Review the report to determine which suppliers are duplicates. After you have identified duplicate suppliers, you can combine them using Supplier Merge. If you merge purchase order information, then any references to the supplier in blanket purchase orders, quotations, and autosource rules are updated to the new supplier.
You submit this report from the Submit Request window. See: Submitting Standard Reports, Programs, and Listings.
Matching Supplier Name Length. Number of characters in the supplier name that you want Payables to compare to identify potential duplicate suppliers.