Vendor Management SoftwareDevelopment
Onboard suppliers properly, keep their documents current and judge them on delivery and quality, so purchasing draws from a vetted list.
Vendor Management Software Development: what the work involves
A vendor list grows by accident. Someone adds a supplier for one urgent job, nobody collects tax registration or bank details properly, and two years later the same company appears under three spellings with different account numbers. Payments to the wrong account, a vendor with an expired licence still on the approved list, and a poor performer repeatedly re-hired are all symptoms of vendors being treated as contacts rather than managed relationships.
We build vendor management around a single vendor master with onboarding, compliance and performance attached. New vendors submit details and documents through a form, procurement reviews and approves them, and bank details changes need a second approver. Documents such as tax certificates and licences carry expiry dates with alerts. After each order, delivery and quality ratings accrue into a scorecard, and blocked vendors cannot receive new purchase orders.
Core features
Vendor onboarding form
Suppliers submit company details, tax registration, bank account and references through a guided form with required documents.
Approval and categorisation
Procurement and finance review submissions, assign categories and risk tiers, and approve for specific kinds of work.
Document expiry tracking
Tax certificates, licences, insurance and registrations carry expiry dates and generate reminders to vendor and buyer.
Performance scorecards
Delivery timeliness, quality acceptance, responsiveness and price competitiveness scored per order and summarised per vendor.
Bank detail change control
Changes to account numbers require verification and a second approver, and are logged to counter payment-redirect fraud.
Blocking and duplicate detection
Matching on tax number, bank account and name catches duplicates, and blocked vendors are refused at order creation.
What we get right before launch
Payment fraud via bank changes
Fraudsters impersonate suppliers and ask for new account details. We require call-back verification and dual approval, and hold the first payment after any change for review.
Cleaning the existing list
Years of duplicate and half-filled records need consolidation. We merge duplicates with finance sign-off, preserving payment history under the surviving record.
Fair, evidence-based ratings
Ratings based on opinion cause disputes. Scores come from recorded events such as late deliveries and rejected quantities, with a note field for context, so vendors can be shown the basis.
Tools and technology
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- Prisma
- Supabase Storage
- Email integration
- REST APIs
Common questions, answered
How is this different from procurement software?
Procurement handles individual purchases from request to payment. Vendor management looks after the supplier itself: onboarding, compliance documents, performance and risk. They work best together and share the same vendor master.
Can vendors update their own details?
Yes, through a portal. Changes to sensitive fields such as bank details go into an approval queue rather than taking effect immediately, and the previous values are retained in the audit history.
Will it flag duplicate vendors?
It checks tax number, bank account and similar names at entry and during import. Suspected duplicates are queued for review, and you decide whether to merge, so no records are combined automatically against your judgement.
Can we rate vendors objectively?
Scores are calculated from recorded delivery dates, quantities accepted and issues logged, then combined by weights you choose. A manual comment field adds context, but the core numbers come from events, not impressions.
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