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Managing Global Vendor Codes and Bank Account Automation in SAP ECC for Multinational Organizations

February 26, 2026
February 26, 2026

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Q.  We are a large manufacturing company with entities in Americas, EMEA and APAC. Our ERP is SAP ECC and we have global, centralized AP. Our current practice is to avoid extending vendor codes cross-border due to varying banking and tax requirements, but we're now seeing duplicate vendors in our ERP. For PO vendors, is it OK to extend the ordering vendor cross-border and then create/link a separate invoicing vendor code per country/region, each with its own banking and tax info? Are there any…

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