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Use Tax Acrrual Workflow Setup

stratton
5 - Atom

Hi all! I'm working on our monthly use tax accrual file and I had a question on automating the process.

 

The first screenshot shows a tab of data for a vendor called "Barcoding Inc". This vendor (amongst others) is populated with a Y/N in Column AO for Self-Assessment for tax purposes. The self assessment Y/N pulls from a separate "vendor tab" where we input the the vendor and supplier number, and then whether it should be "continue accruing" or cease accruing", and it also has a Y/N tab (see second screenshot). 

 

The problem is sometimes new states appear for these vendors and these will come up as #NA's in our self-assessment, so I have to manually add a new row of the same vendor, with that new state to the vendor lookup tab, so that the formula populates the self-assessment as "yes or no" in the first tab mentioned.

 

An example; the vendor, "Barcoding Inc", has a purchase in Minnesota, and Minnesota is not added to the vendor list, so I have to add a new line of data for Barcoding Inc with that state and then mark it as yes/no, so that the self-assessment pulls in the other tab, rather than keeping it as "N/A".

 

How can I have Alteryx automatically populate the Minnesota line of data as yes/no, while SIMULTANEOUSLY adding a new line of data of "Barcoding Inc and MN as the state" in the vendor lookup tab, so that I do not have to do this manually? We have hundreds of vendors so I constantly have to add already known vendors to the vendor lookup tab with new states for each, so that the other tab gets rid of the #N/A.

 

Sorry for the wordiness on this. Thank you in advance!

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NaiLo
8 - Asteroid

Is there any logic you use to determine the Vendor Review Status and Self-Assessment (Y/N) when a new state comes in? I've attached an example that uses the formula tool to mark the self-assessment as "Yes" by default and the Review Status as "Not Reviewed." The critical piece here is that your Output data should have "Append to Existing Sheet" selected under Output Options. That will create a new line of data in your vendor lookup tab and should also update your VLOOKUP in the first tab


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