Supplier Change Request in eSupplier, how are other companies working around effective dates?

When a supplier submits a change request, depending on the change our Accounts Payable department needs to be able to add or change key values on the supplier profile. Currently, Accounts Payable team only option to changing or adding these values is to pick a date in the future and does not meet the businesses needs when they need to start business with the supplier the date it is approved.

For example, if a supplier was to update their payment details and included a change to their Payable name. Once the accounts payable team approves the change from eSuppplier they would need to go into the address and update the payable name; in order to do so they would have to change the effective date on the address to tomorrow's date not making it effective that day. We currently haven't found a work around that will allow for the dates to be back dated, that would only impact supplier change requests from eSupplier. Does anyone else have a similar set