Supplier Management
Describe
at high-level your Accounts Payable processes
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Do you
have single or multiple bill-to locations?
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What is
the basis for your vendor category breakdown?
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Do you
have a single consolidated vendor list?
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Do you
have vendors listed in your files multiple times?
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How do
you handle vendors with multiple addresses?
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Do you
have preferred vendors? How do you
identify them?
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How do
you handle vendor numbering?
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Do you
put employees as vendors? If not, how
do you pay employee expenses?
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Do you
have a standard naming convention for vendors when the name is like
"John Smith"? Is it
"Smith John" or "John Smith"?
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Do you
have shared vendors between companies?
How many?
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What
type of vendor analysis do you perform?
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Are
vendors categorized for reporting purposes?
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Are
vendors categorized for financial tracking purposes?
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Is there
a requirement to define vendor sites which can receive payments and sites
which cannot receive payments?
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Who adds
and maintains vendor in the system?
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How many
“active” vendors are there? (Let’s assume “active” is any vendor with at
least one invoice in last 12 months.
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