Approved Vendors List

Question

1.We need a list of Approved Vendors from List of Vendors Master Data. Is there any provision to have a report. Can any body Guide me.
2. At time of Entering Vendors ( Business Partner)Master Data in <b>Accounting tab</b> if I Select  Tax Sub tab  There is a provision Vendor Type----
Drop Down box .
In this can we define this vendor as <b>Approved.</b>
If so how can we generate Report.

Answer 1

2nd Iteration...client was not using the "Priority" field on the "Payment Terms" tab in the BP Master Data...so they dropped the usage of the "On Hold" and had me change the label of the "Priority" field to "Approval Stage".  They had started using several "stages" to approve a vendor.  They defined the approval levels as: QA Approved [with code of QA Appr], Engineer Dept Approved [with code of Engr Appr], Governmental Reporting Approved [Govern Appr], Final Approval [Final Appr].
1.  To change the label of the fleld name: position the cursor over the field name, and double-click the field name as you hold the "Ctrl" key down.  Remember to make the new field name bold and use all caps for the new name (easy way to ID which field names have changed).
2.  Wrote SQL on each stage of the approval process for each department as follows:
SELECT *
FROM OCRD T1
WHERE T1.Priority = 'QA Appr'
AND T1.CardType = 'V'  
Just substituted 'QA Appr' with 'Engr Appr', etc...
3.  Of course after seeing the various reports, someone in management came along and wanted to have a report that showed ALL Vendors in each and every stage so we changed the SQL to check:
WHERE T1. Priority IS NOT NULL
AND T1.CardType = 'V'
ORDER BY T1.Priority, T1.CardName
The government required them to do even more "stages" and so they had a third iteration...which was my original suggestion...