### Reasons for Merging a Supplier or Supplier Site
- *Reasons for Merging Suppliers*:
- A duplicate supplier was created.
- The supplier was acquired by another company.
- *Reasons for Merging Supplier Sites*:
- A duplicate supplier site was inadvertently created.
- The supplier moved to a new location.
- A division of a supplier was sold, and the appropriate site must be associated with the new supplier that acquired it.
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### Impacts of Supplier or Supplier Site Merge
- *Impacts of Supplier Merge*:
- All contacts of the supplier are merged.
- All products and services categories are merged.
- All sites are merged (this is a prerequisite for supplier merge).
- *Impacts of Supplier Site Merge*:
- All contacts associated with the site are merged.
- If the contact has a user account for the Merged-from supplier, they will not initially see any information about the Merged-to supplier in Oracle Fusion Supplier Portal.
- If the contact needs access to the Merged-to supplier, the user account for the Merged-from supplier contact must first be inactivated before activating the account for the Merged-to supplier.
- When a supplier site is merged:
- The site information on certain supplier qualification transactions tied to that site is not updated. Instead:
- Qualifications and assessments in *Draft, **Ready for Evaluation, and **Future Dated* status are canceled.
- Qualifications and assessments in *Active* status are expired with the end date as the time when the merge process occurs.
- Question responses in the response repository are copied over to the Merged-to supplier site if active responses do not exist for the same questions.
- If a supplier is merged as a result of the supplier site merge:
- The same changes are made to supplier qualification transactions tied to the supplier.
