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General
01What is VendorEye?
VendorEye is an AI-native vendor lifecycle management platform that helps organizations discover, onboard, verify, assess, approve and continuously govern vendors through one controlled process.
02What business problem does VendorEye solve?
VendorEye removes the manual work that sits between procurement systems, email, spreadsheets, vendor portals, documents and approval teams. It creates one governed workflow and evidence trail for every vendor.
03Who is VendorEye designed for?
VendorEye is designed for enterprises managing large or complex third-party ecosystems, including:
- Real estate and construction groups
- Healthcare organizations
- Service marketplaces and aggregators
- Events and hospitality companies
- Retail, distribution and trading groups
- Multi-entity enterprises
- Regulated and compliance-intensive businesses
04Is VendorEye a procurement platform?
VendorEye is a vendor intelligence and governance layer. It supports vendor discovery, onboarding, due diligence, assessments, sourcing and lifecycle monitoring while complementing existing procurement and ERP systems.
05Does VendorEye replace our ERP?
Not necessarily. Your ERP can remain the system of record for transactions, purchase orders, payments and financial master data. VendorEye adds the vendor lifecycle, evidence, workflow and decision-intelligence layer.
06Can VendorEye work alongside SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Coupa or Ariba?
VendorEye is designed to coexist with existing enterprise systems through controlled data exchange and APIs. Integration scope depends on the systems, data objects and workflows required.
07What makes VendorEye different from a traditional vendor portal?
A traditional portal primarily collects information. VendorEye helps govern the entire process: collecting evidence, applying policies, coordinating assessments, routing approvals, identifying exceptions and maintaining an auditable vendor record.
Vendor Discovery and Intake
08How are new vendors added to VendorEye?
Vendors can be invited through a structured onboarding process. Organizations may also identify potential vendors through existing business channels and internal vendor records.
09Can vendors register themselves?
Yes. Invited vendors can use a guided supplier-facing journey to submit their business information, documentation and required responses.
10Can VendorEye support different vendor categories?
Yes. Organizations can configure different requirements for categories such as contractors, consultants, medical suppliers, service professionals, logistics providers or technology vendors.
11Can we collect different information for different countries or entities?
Yes. Onboarding requirements and workflows can be configured around the relevant category, entity, geography and internal policy.
12Does VendorEye help prevent duplicate vendor records?
VendorEye creates structured vendor records and provides a governed review process. The specific duplicate-detection approach depends on the data and integration configuration.
Automated Onboarding
13What parts of vendor onboarding can be automated?
VendorEye can automate or coordinate:
- Vendor invitations
- Structured information collection
- Document requests
- Requirement and completeness checks
- Reminders and follow-ups
- Assessment assignment
- Approval routing
- Exception visibility
- Renewal and expiry notifications
14Can we configure our own onboarding policy?
Yes. Organizations can define required documents, assessment templates, qualification rules, reviewer roles and approval workflows.
15Can different vendor types follow different onboarding journeys?
Yes. A strategic supplier, independent service professional, contractor or regulated vendor can follow a different journey based on the organization’s policy.
16Can VendorEye onboard large numbers of vendors?
VendorEye is designed to structure high-volume onboarding through repeatable policies, guided vendor journeys and exception-based review.
17Does VendorEye remove human approval?
No. VendorEye removes unnecessary administrative work while preserving accountable human review and decision-making.
18Can vendors save their progress and complete onboarding later?
The supplier journey can support staged information and evidence submission. Exact behavior depends on the configured onboarding experience.
19Can VendorEye send reminders for missing information?
Yes. VendorEye can help identify incomplete requirements and support reminder-driven follow-up workflows.
20What happens when a vendor submits incomplete information?
Incomplete requirements can be surfaced for correction, follow-up or exception review before the vendor proceeds to the next stage.
Documents and Evidence
21What documents can VendorEye collect?
Depending on organizational requirements, VendorEye can collect documents such as:
- Trade licences
- VAT and tax certificates
- Insurance certificates
- Bank-related documents
- Quality certifications
- Health and safety evidence
- Professional credentials
- Regulatory licences
- Policy acknowledgements
- Supporting assessment evidence
22Can VendorEye extract information from documents?
VendorEye supports document intelligence that can help extract and structure relevant information from submitted evidence.
23Does VendorEye track document expiry dates?
Yes. Expiry information can be maintained against vendor records and used to surface upcoming or overdue renewals.
24Can vendors update expired documents?
Yes. Vendors can be requested to submit renewed documents through the governed supplier process.
25Can reviewers see the evidence behind a decision?
Yes. Vendor information, documents, assessment responses and workflow activity can be brought together within the vendor record.
26Does VendorEye keep a document history?
VendorEye supports maintaining evidence and activity within the vendor lifecycle, helping teams understand what was submitted, reviewed and changed.
Due Diligence and AML Workflows
27How does VendorEye support vendor due diligence?
VendorEye coordinates the collection, review and approval of due-diligence information and evidence according to the organization’s policies.
28Does VendorEye support AML-related workflows?
VendorEye can support AML-risk evidence collection, assessment questions, exception routing and review workflows. Any external screening sources or providers should be confirmed as part of the implementation scope.
29Does VendorEye perform sanctions, PEP or adverse-media screening?
Where external screening is required, the screening provider, coverage, data sources and integration model must be defined during solution design. VendorEye can govern the resulting evidence, exceptions and decisions.
30Does VendorEye automatically approve vendors after screening?
Not by default. Organizations control their approval rules and accountable decision-makers. VendorEye can route clear cases and surface exceptions, but the final governance model remains policy-driven.
31Can high-risk vendors follow enhanced due diligence?
Yes. Vendors can be routed into additional questionnaires, document requests, assessments and approval steps based on defined rules or identified exceptions.
32Can VendorEye record the reason for approval or rejection?
Yes. Decisions, supporting evidence and reviewer actions can be maintained as part of the audit trail.
33Can due diligence requirements vary by category?
Yes. A low-risk office supplier should not require the same process as a contractor, healthcare provider or service professional entering a customer’s home.
34Does VendorEye provide legal or regulatory advice?
No. VendorEye helps organizations execute their own policies and workflows. Customers remain responsible for defining applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements.
Vendor Assessments
35What types of assessments can be created?
Organizations can configure assessments for areas such as:
- Commercial capability
- Information security
- Data privacy
- Health and safety
- Quality management
- Financial and operational risk
- Sustainability
- Business continuity
- Regulatory compliance
- Category-specific capability
36Can we use our existing questionnaires?
Yes. Existing assessment structures can be configured within VendorEye, subject to implementation review.
37Can different teams contribute to an assessment?
Yes. Procurement, compliance, finance, legal, IT security, operations and other stakeholders can participate according to their assigned responsibilities.
38Can vendors attach evidence to assessment responses?
Yes. Vendors can provide supporting documentation and evidence alongside relevant responses.
39Can VendorEye recommend an assessment outcome?
VendorEye can support recommendation rules and evidence summaries. Final decisions can remain with authorized reviewers.
40Can assessments be repeated periodically?
Yes. Reassessments can be aligned with policy cycles, document renewals, material changes or identified risk events.
Approval and Governance
41Can VendorEye support multiple approval levels?
Yes. Approval workflows can reflect category, risk, entity, business unit and internal delegation requirements.
42Does VendorEye support maker-checker controls?
Yes. Responsibilities can be separated so that the person preparing or reviewing a record is not necessarily the person providing final approval.
43Can approval rules differ between business entities?
Yes. Multi-entity organizations can define governance appropriate to their operating structure.
44What happens when a reviewer needs more information?
The vendor record can be returned for clarification or additional evidence without restarting the entire process.
45Can we see which vendors are waiting for approval?
Yes. Workflow status and pending actions can be surfaced to authorized users.
46Can VendorEye explain why a vendor is blocked?
VendorEye can surface missing requirements, unresolved assessments, expired documents or pending decisions contributing to the blockage.
Vendor 360 and Lifecycle Management
47What is Vendor 360?
Vendor 360 is a consolidated view of the vendor’s identity, documents, assessments, opportunities, workflow history and relevant activity.
48Can different departments see the same vendor record?
Yes, subject to permissions. VendorEye helps reduce fragmented records across procurement, compliance, finance and operations.
49Does VendorEye monitor vendors after onboarding?
VendorEye supports ongoing lifecycle governance through document renewals, reassessments, alerts, workflow activity and evidence updates.
50Can we suspend or restrict a vendor?
Vendor status and governance actions can be managed through authorized workflows according to organizational policy.
51Can VendorEye support vendor offboarding?
Vendor lifecycle workflows can include suspension, expiry, archiving and offboarding requirements based on the agreed configuration.
52Can VendorEye manage vendor performance?
VendorEye’s verified strength is vendor information, onboarding, evidence, assessments, sourcing and governance. Any required performance-scorecard functionality should be confirmed against the proposed product scope.
Sourcing and RFx
53Can VendorEye support RFPs, RFQs and other sourcing events?
Yes. VendorEye supports core sourcing workflows, including opportunity creation, supplier invitations, response collection and bid comparison.
54Can AI help prepare an RFP?
VendorEye can assist with drafting opportunity content, which remains subject to human review and publication.
55Can suppliers submit bids through VendorEye?
Yes. Invited suppliers can participate through a structured response process.
56Can procurement teams compare multiple bids?
Yes. Responses can be organized for structured evaluation and decision-making.
57Does VendorEye automatically award contracts?
VendorEye supports evaluation and decision workflows. Contract awards and commercial authorization remain controlled by the customer.
AI and VAI
58What is VAI?
VAI is VendorEye’s AI-assisted intelligence layer, designed to reduce repetitive work across vendor documents, assessments, sourcing and workflow review.
59What can AI assist with?
Depending on the enabled workflow, AI can assist with activities such as:
- Extracting information from documents
- Summarizing assessment responses
- Drafting sourcing content
- Comparing structured responses
- Identifying missing information
- Explaining workflow blockers
- Organizing vendor evidence
60Does AI make final vendor decisions?
Not by default. VendorEye is designed to support human judgment, accountability and policy-driven approvals.
61How does VendorEye reduce manual data entry?
VendorEye combines structured vendor forms, reusable records, guided workflows and document intelligence to reduce repeated typing and copying.
62Can AI-generated outputs be reviewed?
Yes. AI-assisted outputs should remain reviewable within the relevant business workflow.
Integration and Data
63Does VendorEye provide APIs?
VendorEye supports API-based integration for agreed systems, data objects and workflows.
64What systems can VendorEye integrate with?
Potential integrations include ERP, procurement, finance, identity, screening and enterprise data systems. Compatibility and implementation scope must be confirmed for each environment.
65Can existing vendor data be migrated?
Yes. Migration can be planned based on source quality, field mapping, document availability and governance requirements.
66Can approved vendor data be sent to our ERP?
This can be supported through an agreed integration workflow, subject to the target system and required data model.
67Does VendorEye support data exports?
Authorized users can work with supported reporting and export capabilities, depending on configuration and permissions.
Security and Access
68Can user access be controlled by role?
Yes. VendorEye supports role-based access controls so users see and perform only the actions relevant to their responsibilities.
69Can access be separated between entities or business units?
VendorEye is designed for controlled multi-entity and multi-tenant environments, with access aligned to the configured organizational structure.
70Is activity recorded for audit purposes?
VendorEye maintains workflow and user activity needed to support traceability and audit review.
71Can sensitive vendor information be restricted?
Yes. Access to sensitive information can be governed through roles and permissions.
72Where is customer data hosted?
Hosting architecture, data residency and deployment requirements should be confirmed during the commercial and security review.
73Does VendorEye support single sign-on?
Identity and SSO requirements should be confirmed during solution design because supported configurations may depend on the customer environment.
Implementation
74How long does implementation take?
Implementation time depends on process complexity, entities, categories, integrations, data migration and approval requirements. VendorEye first defines the priority workflows and then plans a phased rollout.
75Do we need to redesign all our procurement processes?
No. VendorEye can begin with a high-impact process such as vendor onboarding, document governance or assessments, then expand over time.
76Can we start with one entity or category?
Yes. A focused rollout can establish policies, integrations and adoption before wider deployment.
77Who should participate in implementation?
Typical stakeholders include:
- Procurement
- Compliance and risk
- Finance
- Legal
- Operations
- Information security
- IT and enterprise applications
- Vendor-management teams
78Is training provided?
Training and enablement can be aligned to administrators, reviewers, approvers and vendor-facing teams as part of the implementation plan.
79Can VendorEye reflect our terminology and branding?
Supplier-facing experiences and platform configuration can be aligned with agreed organizational terminology and branding requirements.
Commercial and Support
80How is VendorEye priced?
Pricing depends on the agreed scope, including organizational structure, workflows, vendor volumes, users, integrations and deployment requirements.
81Is there a minimum number of vendors or users?
Commercial thresholds depend on the selected package and implementation scope.
82Can we request a demonstration using our process?
Yes. A tailored demonstration can be structured around your vendor categories, onboarding requirements, assessments and approval model.
83Can we run a pilot?
A focused pilot or phased rollout can be considered where the objectives, scope, success criteria and production pathway are clearly defined.
84What support is available after launch?
Support arrangements can include onboarding assistance, administrator enablement, operational support and agreed service levels.
85How do we get started?
Begin with a discovery session covering:
- Your highest-volume or highest-risk vendor process
- Current systems and manual handoffs
- Required documents and assessments
- Approval and exception rules
- Integration requirements
- Desired rollout outcomes
Show us the vendor process your team still operates manually. We’ll show you what can be removed.
Show us the vendor process your team still operates manually.
We’ll map the handoffs, evidence and approval decisions, then show you what VendorEye can remove or govern more effectively.