Tell me if this scenario sounds familiar to you. You’ve reviewed your Workday® Supplier Catalog recently and found that you have a significant number who are no longer active. Your supplier data is not trivial and have multiple payment types and pages of configuration defined. You attempted to inactivate them using the Submit Supplier EIB, but at 295 columns long and multiple rows per supplier, it’s impossible to fill out without screwing something up. Frustrated, you start the laborious process of inactivating them manually and then you get pulled into priority tasks leaving a few corrected and the rest of the Suppliers active.
We manage several Workday® Financials customers who have extensive Supplier Catalogs and we are constantly getting requests to bulk edit them.
Common update tasks we have seen are:
Kognitiv has developed a tool which will preserve the existing Supplier configuration and perform the specific updates above quickly and easily. It doesn’t require you to navigate a giant multi column EIB spreadsheet, we just need the Supplier ID and the changes you want to perform.