Supplier Stop Status

If the Payment indicator field in the Supplier file contains either of the characters 'Y' or 'Z', the following options recognise the supplier status as 'stopped', preventing that supplier from being accepted:

Purchase Orders
Calloff / Blanket Requisitions
Action Calloff / Blanket
Automatic Requisitions
Requisitions Entry
Supplier Contracts

Where a requisition exists prior to the supplier being marked as 'stopped', or requisitions have been raised automatically for the supplier, the requisition will effectively be suspended, i.e. it cannot be actioned, progressed or authorised.

Supplier values and allowed activities are:

Value	Payments allowed	New orders allowed
Blank	Pay when due	Yes
P	Pay immediately	Yes
H	Cash allowed, but not remittance advices	Yes
X	No	Yes
Y	Yes	No
Z	No	No

'Y'indicates that Payments are allowed but the creation of new Purchase Orders is disallowed, and ‘Z’ indicates that both Payments and the creation of new Purchase Orders are disallowed.

If payments are disallowed (X or Z) then this will stop the suppliers appearing on the Payment List, Remittance Advice and Cash Required List.

If new orders are not allowed this also prevents orders being raised via MRP recommendations, Requisitions and Calloff/Blanket Requisition Schedules, and Supplier contracts.

Also new schedules and contracts cannot be created for stopped suppliers.