Approve supplier status

All suppliers added to Shared Travel Services are non-preferred until their status is changed to preferred.

To identify a supplier as a preferred supplier:

1. Click the Suppliers button on the Administration Overview diagram (Organization view).

   The Supplier Management search screen appears.

2. Use the search criteria defined in the Search for supplier procedure to narrow the search for the supplier you want.

   If you searched by merchant category group, click the category to view the associated suppliers.

   If more than 500 suppliers return, pagination arrows appear at the top of the screen.

   You can refine the search results on any page by clicking Page Filter at the top of the screen and typing or selecting a value in any of the fields.

   You can also sort information alphabetically by clicking the sort indicator next to any column heading.

3. To identify a supplier as a preferred supplier, click . The icon will change to .
4. To return the supplier status to non-preferred, click .

Once identified as a preferred supplier, you can create a default coding rule for the supplier.