When one Vendor's payment needs to go to another vendor upon suitable authorisation, it is best to create a credit/debit note pair for each vendor and then make the allocation as normally done.

I currently create the vendor invoice and then put a note in the vendor payment about the reimbursement.  Not easy to follow the payment path or search.

I need some way of allocating payment to a vendor against another vendor’s invoice:
I would like to create the vendor invoice, make a payment to the purchaser (setup as a vendor), and then allocate that payment to the actual vendor’s invoice.

This would record all parties involved in the transaction in a searchable way.
Is there any better way to do third party payments?
Thanks