We add new vendors by their legal name on their W-9 but many use a dba and want the check made out to the dba. Therefore, in the database view we had added a ton of vendors into the Alias section so we are able to find the vendor from the invoice we have received. There would be no way to find the vendor without this feature. Slowing our production of issuing checks to a crawl.
This also means you can't search on a vendor's last name if the company name is in the vendor field.
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