Suppliers in Payables

Defining suppliers is one of the most important tasks in Oracle Payables R12. Suppliers are individuals and companies from whom you purchase goods and services. If supplier does business from multiple locations then we have to enter supplier site for each location. We can buy from several sites and send payments to several different sites of the same supplier. The supplier level information automatically defaults to site level. Given a brief info on supplier lets now walk thru the steps to create a supplier in Payables R12.

Make sure the supplier you are entering has not already been entered in the system. To verify already the supplier exits you can run a concurrent program Supplier Report. The following lookups have been defined in Purchasing and Payables, for example Pay Group and Supplier type. Financials options have been defined.


1. Click on Create Supplier.

2. Choose Standard Supplier as supplier type. One can create a hierarchy between two suppliers by creating one supplier as child, or if you want create an employee as a supplier.

3. Enter a unique supplier name in Organization name field.

4. Enter the supplier’s tax id in tax field.

5. Click Apply. You will be navigated to suppliers page with info on the new supplier.