Vendors are established in both accounting and purchasing. The vendor master record requires three views – general, accounting, and purchasing in order to be active. Vendors can be created centrally meaning that all views are generated concurrently or responsibility can be distributed to accounting and purchasing for creating and maintaining their respective views. In this case study, central creation will be used to enter all of the needed data. In this way, this vendor record will contain all of the information necessary to conduct business transactions.