Release criteria

In future, the following check criteria will be available for the release of newly created suppliers, which can be linked collectively via the chaining setting – via AND (all configured criteria must be fulfilled for the step to take effect) or OR (one of the configured criteria must be fulfilled for the step to take effect) linking:

Data validation

Duplicate Suspects

Explicit criteria

Intercompany supplier
Standard supplier
Checked for compliance
Status (multiple selection)
Vendor categories (multiple selection)
Material groups approved (multiple selection)
Material groups rejected (multiple selection)
Organizational unit (multiple selection)*

• These are organizational units that can be optionally selected by a supplier as part of the supplier’s self-registration or that have been explicitly maintained by the customer for release processes. These organizational units explicitly have nothing to do with the actual extended organizational units.