What is Vendor Management? Vendor Management (sometimes called Supplier Management) is the process by which a buyer formalizes a relationship with their vendors and suppliers and manages that relationship through its lifecycle. How Does Vendor Management Work? The first step in a Vendor Management is typically procurement, where a buyer sources and negotiates a contract […]
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What are supplier portals? Supplier Portals (or Vendor Portals as some people call it) is a web-based, supplier management solution that allows you to collaborate with your suppliers in a secure, online environment. Among the functions a Supplier Portal can provide is to allow organizations to streamline the Supplier Onboarding process via supplier self-service as well as […]
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What is a TIN Check? When onboarding a new vendor, a TIN Check is an important component of ensuring compliance. It verifies that either a Social Security Number (SSN) or an Employer Identification Number (EIN) is valid and matches a person’s or company’s name in the IRS Database. A mismatch occurs when the IRS cannot […]
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One of the most popular trends today in business is moving from on-premise and maintaining business applications on internal servers to cloud based applications. There are several reasons for this trend but two of the most common are reductions in internal costs, particularly IT costs, as well as a reduced IT role in getting new […]
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What are Vendor Portals? A Vendor Portal (or a Supplier Portal as some people call it) is a web-based, vendor management solution that allows you to collaborate with your vendors in a secure, online environment. So what are vendor portals? Let’s talk about it. Among the functions a Vendor Portal can provide is to allow […]
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Vendor portal-based vendor onboarding and maintenance, also known as supplier onboarding, can be a very time-consuming process. To combat this, ICG has a set of vendor onboarding tools that provide organizations with powerful self-service, cloud-hosted applications to help them onboard and manage vendors and suppliers. Every aspect of vendor onboarding can be accomplished by implementing a […]
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What is Vendor Onboarding? Vendor onboarding, or supplier onboarding, is the process of gathering the documents and data needed to set up a company as an approved vendor and to enable your organization to efficiently conduct business, purchase goods and services, and make payments to that company. It should offer functionality such as vetting and validation […]
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To take advantage of all the benefits of hosting an application in the cloud, you do not have to compromise functionality or configurability. Let’s talk about how to do this with single tenant cloud solutions. What is SaaS? Software as a Service (SaaS) is the predominant delivery model for cloud-based business applications today. SaaS is […]
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What is Vendor Self-Service? Vendor Self-Service is a benefit of Vendor Portals and Supplier Portals. They allow a vendor to provide and access information without intervention from the buying company. This data may be necessary for vendor onboarding, compliance or payment or may be the results of payment status or payment dispute inquiries. By providing […]
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