Using Accounts Payable

Vendors: Tracking Vendor ActivityInquiring About Vendor ActivityThis section explains how to view and locate detailed information on vendoractivity.Finding Vendor Activity InformationYou can use the Vendor Activity Inquiry (VENI) form to view a record of allpurchasing activity with any of your vendors. This includes historical andcurrent information on all transactions, and provides information on allpurchasing documents you have created for a given vendor.The form displays all requisitions, purchase orders, vouchers, and checks thathave been processed for the specified vendor during its history with yourinstitution. (Colleague stores historical data for seven years unless it ispurged.) They appear in reverse chronological order, with the most recentdocument at the top of each window. In addition, at the upper right aredisplayed the year to date count and dollar amounts of requisitions, purchaseorders, vouchers and checks for that vendor.88 Using Accounts Payable, June 19, 2009© 2009 Datatel, Inc.