How do I deactivate a supplier in Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance (SLP)?

Ariba SLP runs in a system component named SM. When SLP is in place, you shall not de-activate a supplier by disabling the organization and its contacts. Thus, follow the steps below to de-activate a supplier in SLP:

1. Click Manage > SM Administration > Data Import and Export.
2. Select File type > Suppliers.
3. Click Export.

A file named SuppliersExport.csv will be downloaded in your computer. Open the file in notepad++ or in another pure text editor (Excel is not recommended for this purpose) and proceed with the following steps:

1. Copy the 1st line (header) to a new file, and save as Disabled-Suppliers.csv somewhere in your computer.
2. Go back to the previous SuppliersExport.csv file. You will have one line for every supplier from your realm. Locate the supplier you want to disable and copy the whole line
3. Paste the entire line below the header in the Disabled-Suppliers.csv file
4. Change the current value from the enabled flag from true to false
5. Optional: Repeat the steps 2 to 4 for all the suppliers you need to de-activate

After these steps, the Disabled-Suppliers.csv file will look like this:

erpVendorId,smVendorId,masterVendorId,sourceSystem,name1,name2,name3,name4,phone,fax,line1,line2,line3,postalCode,poBox,city,state,stateName,countryCode,taxIdentificationNumberTypeCode,partyTaxID,longPartyTaxID,dunsId,active,s4OrgSystemId
282501,S109601,,SAP,Test Supplier 01,,900001,,555 123-4467,,100 Test Street,,,,,Test City,PA,,US,,,,,false,ACM_1506997
VDR24717596,S1067881,,SM,Smoke Test 99,,501010,,1,,100 Test Street,,,79124,,Amarillo,TX,,US,,,,,false,ACM_139701

We now need to import the Disabled-Suppliers.csv file back to Ariba:

1. Click Manage > SM Administration > Data Import and Export.
2. Select File type > Suppliers.
3. Click Load and locate the Disabled-Suppliers.csv file in your computer.
4. Click Import option.
5. Select Import Summary tab to view the result.

When the process ends, Ariba will de-activate the supplier organization and other required tasks in the backend. After a few minutes, the supplier will no longer be displayed in the Supplier Management search.

Important to note that this process will not work with an ERP integrated supplier. If a supplier is marked with a delete indicator in an integrated SAP ERP system, and the supplier has already been synchronized with the ERP, SAP Ariba Supplier Management solutions automatically inactivates that supplier. If the delete indicator is removed in SAP ERP, SAP Ariba Supplier Management solutions reactivates the supplier.

More information can be found in the page below:

• Inactivating and reactivating suppliers

Note, re-activating the supplier does not update Supplier Creation Date as it's not a new supplier.

Supplier Lifecycle & Performance > Supplier Lifecycle & Performance Import/Export