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Vendor Onboarding

Bringing an approved supplier into your systems ready to transact.

Area
Procurement
Also known as
supplier onboarding
In this area
40 terms of 259

Onboarding collects and verifies everything needed to trade with a supplier: legal identity, tax registration, bank details, contacts, categories, insurance and signed terms. It ends with an active vendor record.

The bank-details step is the fraud-sensitive one. Verifying account changes against an independently obtained contact is the control that stops payment-diversion attempts.

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Supplier Prequalification

Related terms

Supplier Prequalification

Assessing suppliers for capability and compliance before they are allowed to bid.

Approved Vendor List

AVL

The controlled set of suppliers cleared to receive orders.

Sanctions Screening

Checking counterparties against restricted-party and sanctions lists.

Vendor Portal

A secure area where suppliers see and act on their own transactions.

More in Procurement

Approval Workflow Bid Evaluation Blanket Purchase Order Category Management Conflict of Interest (CoI) Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Cost Avoidance Delegation of Authority (DoA)

Vendor Onboarding is not just a definition here

Procurement runs on this vocabulary every day in AWRA OpsHub — 40 of our 259 glossary terms describe things the platform actually does.

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