Taxonomy? Classification? Categorisation?

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 by admin

Not sure if there is a way around this classification problem
I have a supplier who produces products that can be classified under two various categories ie Uniforms and Site cleaning services. However, the invoices are under the one Vendor Id (same company).

How can i force the user to select the right category.

As it stands the user selects the invoice based on the supplier then is presented with two categories (uniform, site services).

Is there a taxonomy that can be used that groups such suppliers?

ie use a special field to flag the vendor Id so that regardless of what service they are invoicing for it falls under the one category.
What i am looking for is an established industry standard to deal with such suppliers for categorisation purposes to increase granular spend visibilty

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