Suppliers are exported using predefined integration events which do not depend on your login partition or the search filters specified on the Suppliers screen.

The directory location for exported .csv files is specified in the export integration event. By default, exported files are saved in the /config/variants/variant
/partitions/partition/data directory for the target partition.

By default, exported files have the suffix _Export appended to the filename. The original files are not overwritten. To reload data from exported files using integration events, you must first change the filename to remove the suffix. If there is no data to be exported, the exported file will contain column titles only.

For more information on export integration events, see the Ariba Buyer Data Load Guide.

1. Select a partition from which to export common and partitioned suppliers to .csv files. Select All Partitions to export suppliers on all partitions simultaneously. Data exported to partition/None is nonpartitioned.
   • The Integration Event column lists the predefined export integration event(s) that export supplier data.
   • The Partition column indicates the target partition to which data will be exported.
   • The Description column indicates the filename(s) of exported data.
   • The Status column indicates the status of the export integration events. Click the status to view details and the history of past runs.
   • If available, click the Table Options icon, located in the row above the column headers, to display commands that control the display of data in the table. For example, you can hide or show columns of data; group data; or export data to Excel.
2. Click Start Export to continue exporting, or click Done to return to the previous screen.
3. Click OK to confirm the export, or Cancel to return to the previous page without exporting suppliers.
   • The predefined export integration events export common suppliers and the associated partitioned suppliers and supplier locations.
   • By default, objects whose adapter source is set to ManuallyMaintained are not exported.
   • A log message is created in the database audit log when data is exported.