Once your organization qualifies or designates a supplier as preferred, you might need to disqualify them if they no longer meet your standards or requirements. Disqualifications are always based on existing qualifications. You can choose to fully or partially disqualify a supplier by selecting the specific combination of commodity, region, and department that applies when you start the disqualification process. This flexibility allows you to target the disqualification to the specific areas where the supplier does not meet expectations.
As with qualifications, a supplier can have multiple separate disqualification projects, each for a different combination of commodity, region, and department.
Disqualification is designed to be an internal process involving only members of your organization, keeping sensitive decisions about supplier relationships confidential. You can manage disqualifications using template-based projects, supplier-related data import tasks, or the Supplier Data API with Pagination.
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Project-based disqualifications are available only in solutions that include SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance.
Disqualifying a supplier through data import or API doesn't create associated projects. Administrators should consult the Supplier Management Setup and Administration Guide for details about supplier-related data imports or utilizing the Supplier Data API with Pagination.
In the SAP Ariba supplier lifecycle, you can disqualify a supplier after they’ve been qualified or after they’ve been both qualified and designated as preferred, as shown in the following diagram:
