Choose a reason for the Status Reason field.Change the Supplier Enablement Status option to Closed.

Click Actions > View Task Details next to one of the non-completed tasks.

Click Actions > View Tasks next to a supplier with an enablement status of Active or On Hold.

Go to Supplier Enablement > Manage Vendors.

T o change a supplier's enablement status to Closed: To delete suppliers that have the enablement status of Active or On Hold, you need to change the enablement status to Closedfirst. You can remove suppliers from the Manage Vendors and Monitor sections if they haven't started supplier enablement or if they have an enablement status of Closed. Information regarding supplier enablement can be found under the Supplier Enablement tab in the main Ariba Network buyer dashboard.

If it is absolutely necessary to delete the vendor even if there are unrealized POs and Invoices, please reach out to customer support for further guidence. no new documents can be created on top of them, eg: invoices/update POs for the POs, payment proposal/remittances for invoices. Please make sure that all the POs (Purchase Orders) are invoiced and all the invoices are paid (by payment proposal and remittances) for the vendor you are deleting, because once you have deleted a vendor, the transaction key at the backend gets deleted and all the associated document becomes null i.e.

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