The Costpoint Vendor Master contains much of the information for Accounts Payable such as payment address, payment terms, etc. The requester or buyer uses the same Costpoint table to select the vendor for the purchase request. The primary filters for selection in the look-up are the Vendor Status and the Approval Status.
The Vendor Status fields may differ depending on which module the Vendor Master is opened in. In the Accounts Payable module, the Vendor Status choices are Active, Give Warning, or Inactive; in the Purchasing module, the Vendor Status for PO choices are OK, Give Warning, or On Hold. They both update the VEND table but the data entry nomenclature is slightly different.
The statuses of On Hold and Inactive have the same table code which provides the filter to not allow the user to select the vendor for the requisition. The approval status in the bottom right corner of the Maintain Vendors screen must be APPROVED(PENDING or UNAPPROVED are not allowed).