How do you reactivate an inactive supplier?

What is the best way to reactivate a supplier that has been inactivated in order for the supplier to show in the Payables module?  To accomplish this the first step was to remove the inactive date from the supplier but that didn't allow the supplier to be pulled up in the payable module.  The work around was to inactive the supplier payment site and then add another payment site with the same information.  I don't believe this is the best way to do this and so I'm asking the question to the community.  There has to be some best practice