What are Suppliers/Vendors?
Whereas the other areas of your Spendesk account provide a direct look at a specific aspect of your Procurement Request or Spend, the Suppliers page instead gives you a centralized view of your organization's relationship with your Suppliers.
Find Suppliers on Spendesk
You can find Suppliers/Vendors in the Menu section on Spendesk.
How to use Suppliers
Suppliers Table View
There are a few key areas on the Suppliers table view:
Supplier Properties as Table Columns - there are a number of default Supplier properties that will show as columns on your table views.
1. Vendor Name
2. Vendor Primary Category
3. Total Annual Spend
4. Vendor Primary Department Owner
5. Last 12 Month Spend (to be integrated with Spendesk Payment Datas)
6. Last Month Spend (to be integrated with Spendesk Payment Datas)
7. # Active Contracts
8. Risk Level
9. Criticity Level
10. Vendor Onboarding Status
11. Bank Infos Status
12. Tax Infos Status
Add Supplier - click this button to manually add a supplier to the database.
Supplier Detail Page
There are tabs on the Supplier Detail Page:
Supplier Overview - high-level info, as well as other related records in your account
Supplier Spend - transactional spend via Spendesk
Supplier Documents - documents of sour supplier (IT , Compliance,…)
Supplier Contracts - every Supplier Contracts
Supplier Request History
