Define suppliers to record information about individuals and companies from whom you purchase goods and services, and to record information about employees whom you reimburse for expense reports. If your supplier does business from multiple locations, you store supplier information only once, and enter supplier sites for each location. Different supplier sites can function as pay sites, purchasing sites, or procurement card sites. For example, for a single supplier, you can buy from several different sites and send payments to several different sites. Most supplier-level information automatically defaults to all supplier sites to facilitate supplier site entry. However, you can override these defaults and have unique information for each site.
You use the Suppliers Tab to complete the following actions:
For detailed information on the fields that appear on the supplier definition pages, see: Oracle Payables User Guide and Oracle iSupplier Portal User Guide