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Vendor management

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Start here
Connect the vendor identity, approved scope, access plan, work evidence, and invoice. Treat a request to change payment details or spend authority as a new verification event.

Choose the question you need to resolve

Separate vendor identity, service evidence and payment instructions.
Evidence that work occurred does not verify a new bank destination.

A shared vendor code must be retired.

Replacement success, retired-path denial, late work, and emergency exceptions are tested.
Cut over to attributable access

Two vendor records may represent the same business.

Payables, work history, credentials, integrations, and unresolved identity evidence are preserved.
Reconcile merge consequences

Vendor master data changed across the portfolio.

A known denominator, high-risk coverage, random selection, and shared-cause expansion.
Build a risk-stratified change sample

A vendor changed the staff serving the property.

Old and replacement custodians are mapped across keys, codes, accounts, records, and open work.
Reconcile every access path

A contractor asks to change the payment destination.

Independent verification and an approval record before relying on changed instructions.
Verify the bank-change request

A contractor says an inspection finding is fixed.

Evidence tied to the original finding and its completion criteria, with unresolved items retained.
Check the finding evidence

The last contractor visit was incomplete.

A changed appointment packet with the remaining scope and acknowledged dependencies.
Reconstruct the visit before rebooking
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