Supplier - 2019 Archive

With the recent merger of Westar Energy and KCPL, the new entity is known as Evergy.

The current Vendor Payment Self Service webpage will be decommissioned and no longer available for use starting March 1, 2020.

Last week, when announcing the new International Address Verification in SMART, the Override checkbox used when entering addresses was not functional.

Effective June 28, 2019 SMART users will see international address verification when entering Supplier Addresses.

As a reminder, AT and T will be accepting electronic payments from the State of Kansas beginning July 1, 2019.

As a part of the ongoing ACH initiative, AT and T will be accepting electronic payments from the State of Kansas beginning July 1, 2019.

Since changes were made to the new supplier entry process last week, users have been experiencing issues with the Location number and Description.

Effective Friday 1/18/2019, any new supplier created in SMART, either online or interfaced, will be checked against the bidder table and blocked from creation if the entity already exists as a bidder, based on the TIN.

Per the Department of Administration’s initiative to increase SMART ACH participation rates, the default location has been changed to ACH for the following suppliers:

The file naming issue with the INF01 Vendor Download File name (initially reported on July 31, 2018) has been resolved.