Populate vendor file
Vendor in OLE refers to the library's vendors from whom procurement of resource is done.
Vendor data comprises of contact information, payment and discount information, tax related data, PO transmission details, shipping conditions, etc. These information, however, dwell across a dozen tables.
OLE doesn't have a bulk upload option for Vendors considering the relatively less volume of data compared to Patrons or Bib data. An Implementer will have to manually load data across the tables to get the system working properly.
The following workbook lists the tables required to populate the vendor file, and gives examples from Chicago's implementation and the default TST database:
Michelle Suranofsky wrote this script to populate the vendor file at Lehigh University: loadvendorstocsv.php
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