Single invoice to one vender for payment with multiple vendor invoices as backup

 We have a vendor that does all our freighting needs.  He uses various frt vendors throughout the month.  Then he sends us 1 invoice that is the consolidation of all the various vendors invoices.  Currently, we enter the invoice for payment and accrue it to a clearing account.  Then we enter all the back up vendor invoices debiting the project and crediting the clearing account.  There is no payment on these entries.  We have to do it this way because we get calls from these vendors checking for payment even though we don't pay them.  Is there a better way