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title: "Supplier onboarding and document collection: AI Use Case"
description: "Collect the forms, certificates and bank details a new supplier must provide, check each item against your requirements, and chase what is missing, so purchasing can start sooner without skipping checks."
url: https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/supplier-onboarding/
site: Lid Vizion
index: https://lidvizion.ai/llms.txt
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[Use cases](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/) · Operations

# Supplier onboarding and document collection

Collect the forms, certificates and bank details a new supplier must provide, check each item against your requirements, and chase what is missing, so purchasing can start sooner without skipping checks.

[Talk through this workflow](https://lidvizion.ai/contact/?need=ai-workflow&from=%2Fuse-cases%2Fsupplier-onboarding%2F#write) · [Automate the repeatable](https://lidvizion.ai/services/automation/)

Where it starts

## The trigger.

A team requests a new supplier, or an existing supplier’s documents are due for renewal.

How it runs today

- Onboarding runs through email threads and a spreadsheet tracker.
- Missing or expired certificates are found when an order is already waiting.
- Bank detail changes arrive by email with no consistent check.

The workflow

## Four bounded steps.

Each step has an owner and a stop rule.

1. 01 / Request
   Send the new supplier one checklist and one place to upload documents.
2. 02 / Check
   Read each document and check it against the requirements: type, dates, names and completeness.
3. 03 / Chase
   Remind the supplier about missing or expired items, and flag anything unusual.
4. 04 / Approve
   A named owner reviews the file and approves the supplier in the purchasing system.

Where people stay in control

## Approval points.

- A person approves every new supplier before any order or payment.
- Bank details are always confirmed through a separate, known channel before use.

How we would measure it

## Against a baseline.

Measured before and after, on the same work.

### Time from supplier request to approval.

### Orders delayed by missing supplier documents.

### Expired certificates found before, rather than after, they lapse.

Related

## Go deeper.

- [Automate the repeatable](https://lidvizion.ai/services/automation/): Give recurring work an owner, a trigger, and a stop rule.
- [Client vs. server: where code runs](https://lidvizion.ai/resources/basics/backend-client-vs-server/): What belongs in the browser or app, and what must stay on a server you control.
- [Onboard new suppliers without the email chase](https://lidvizion.ai/guides/onboard-new-suppliers-without-the-email-chase/): A four-step playbook to give every new supplier one checklist and upload point, check their documents automatically, chase what is missing and keep a person approving every supplier.
- [How to automate supplier onboarding with AI](https://lidvizion.ai/answers/how-to-automate-supplier-onboarding-with-ai/): How can a business use AI to onboard new suppliers faster without skipping checks?

More use cases

## Other places to start.

[All use cases](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/)

- [RFI and submittal tracking](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/rfi-and-submittal-tracking/): Operations Read incoming requests for information and submittals, log the key fields, track who owes a response and by when, and give the project team a short list of what is overdue each morning.
- [Shipment exception routing](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/shipment-exception-routing/): Operations Watch tracking and order data for shipments that are late, stuck or missing paperwork, and route each exception to the right coordinator with the order, carrier status and a suggested next step, before the customer has to ask.
- [Program outcome reports](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/program-outcome-reports/): Operations Pull activity and outcome data from program systems, attendance records and surveys into a draft report for funders and the board, with every figure linked to its source, so the program lead reviews instead of compiling.

An illustrative workflow pattern, not a result from a specific customer.

Bring the messy version

## One workflow. A better way to run it.

Show us the tools, the handoffs, and the part that keeps slowing your team down.

[Let’s map your workflow](https://lidvizion.ai/contact/) · [Read our approach](https://lidvizion.ai/approach/)