Ariba SLP - External Supplier Request Duplicate Check against Tax ID and Migrated Suppliers

[gaurav_patel]

Dear All,

We have a requirement to perform a Duplicate Check against Tax ID (Australian Business Number - ABN to be specific) that would be entered by suppliers on External (Self-Registration) Supplier Request; and this Duplicate Check also needs to match against the supplier data imported/migrated from ERP to SLP.

Since Tax answer type with default duplicate check is only supported on the Internal Supplier Request, we are planning to use an individual question mapped to tax field to collect Tax ID (ABN) info on External Supplier Request and apply custom duplicate check to it. However, Custom duplicate checks don't match against mapped data that originates from sources outside of supplier requests, such as data import, ERP integration, or other types of questionnaires as per Default Supplier Request Duplicate Checks and Setting Up Custom Duplicate Checks | SAP Help Portal.

If you have come across such requirement in the past or have any useful pointers, please share how do we ensure that Duplicate check for External Supplier Request Tax ID considers legacy supplier data migrated from ECC to Ariba as well.

Regards,
Gaurav

[Somya]

Duplicate check won't work against supplier created via other sources like- Import, ERP Integration because it checks against the questions (default or custom check) mapped and available in supplier request form of either Internal or external supplier request.