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Guidance on how to set a party/id
when the source data doesn't provide one
#1635
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We can perhaps have two streams:
When I worked with Quebec data many years ago, one ministry had something like 34 variations. |
Agree, but note that the first one will only work for buyers but not for suppliers. |
Ah, yeah, since there are different options for each case, I suppose the guidance could be organized by type of organization:
And then within each:
For suppliers, normalization is trickier, because small differences in names can actually be two different companies. In some cases, the best available option might just be to assign a local ID, and not attempt to make it a global ID. |
Yeap, that is what I thought, too. I marked this issue as Documentation, but I'm not sure if this should be a Worked example under the "Deal with the hard cases" section instead |
This question has been raised by at least 3 partners this year (India, Canada and Guatemala), so we need to add some guidance on the best alternatives to fill this field (and what to do with
Organization/identifier
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