Within Accounts Payable, you can block a vendor account for posting. You have to block a vendor master record before you can mark it for deletion. You would also block a vendor that you use only as an alternative payment recipient, so that nobody can post to it by mistake.

There are several fields in the vendor master record available to you. You can set the following blocks:

• Posting block for certain company codes or for all company codes

• Purchasing block for certain purchasing organizations or for all purchasing organizations. This is of course only if you have purchased and installed the purchasing application component.

This topic describes how to block a vendor account and blocking an account for the accounting department only. A separate topic explains how you block a vendor from being paid.

You can cancel a vendor account block at any time. To do this, simply remove the relevant indicator.