{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Vendor Management System",
  "lang": "en",
  "prd": {
    "oneLiner": "Connect vendor profiles, qualification checklists, document-expiry alerts, evaluations, and risk reporting.",
    "goal": "Maintain valid required vendor documentation for 95% or more of active vendors.",
    "whyNow": "Vendor profiles, certifications, and contract documents are scattered across folders, causing missed renewals and slow risk review.",
    "category": "Internal operations system",
    "platforms": [
      "Web"
    ],
    "problem": "Vendor profiles, certifications, and contract documents are scattered across folders, causing missed renewals and slow risk review.",
    "solution": "Connect vendor profiles, qualification checklists, document-expiry alerts, evaluations, and risk reporting.",
    "alternatives": "Email, chat, spreadsheets, and manual ledgers",
    "differentiator": "Manage intake, processing, and operations data as one connected source of truth.",
    "targets": [
      {
        "name": "Employee requesting or looking up a vendor",
        "role": "Requester and operational user",
        "needs": "Quickly register needed work and know its status.",
        "pain": "Vendor profiles, certifications, and contract documents are scattered across folders, causing missed renewals and slow risk review."
      },
      {
        "name": "Procurement and compliance operations coordinator",
        "role": "Operations administrator",
        "needs": "Manage priority and history and review operations metrics.",
        "pain": "Vendor profiles, certifications, and contract documents are scattered across folders, causing missed renewals and slow risk review."
      },
      {
        "name": "System and policy administrator",
        "role": "Operations and security administrator",
        "needs": "Manage access, policy, and audit history.",
        "pain": "Vendor profiles, certifications, and contract documents are scattered across folders, causing missed renewals and slow risk review."
      }
    ],
    "scenarios": [
      {
        "text": "An operational user registers required work and checks its status.",
        "start": "P1"
      },
      {
        "text": "An operator processes queued work and handles exceptions.",
        "start": "P5"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews policy and access.",
        "start": "P9"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews audit records and operating metrics.",
        "start": "P10"
      }
    ],
    "northStar": "Share of operations requests completed on time",
    "kpis": [
      {
        "name": "On-time processing rate",
        "target": "Maintain valid required vendor documentation for 95% or more of active vendors.",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly aggregation of state changes against target dates",
        "refs": [
          "F6"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Operations visibility",
        "target": "100% of key work tracked",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Share of records connected to reporting",
        "refs": [
          "F11"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Auditable operations rate",
        "target": "100% of key changes retained",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly audit-log and change-history review",
        "refs": [
          "F12"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "inScope": [
      "Vendor registration and required-document submission",
      "Vendor profile, contract, and risk-status lookup",
      "Qualification review, approval, re-evaluation, and document renewal",
      "Vendor rating, expiring-document, and risk-status reporting",
      "Vendor registration and required-document submission validation and duplicate prevention",
      "Search, filter, and history management",
      "Owner, priority, and SLA management",
      "Approval and policy review",
      "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing",
      "Notifications and subscriptions",
      "External integration and data synchronization",
      "Role, permission, and audit management"
    ],
    "nonGoals": [
      "External customer portal",
      "Replacing adjacent systems such as accounting or payroll"
    ],
    "assumptions": [
      "User and organization data are available through company SSO.",
      "Operators manage policy and classification criteria."
    ],
    "risks": [
      "Weak initial classification can cause incorrect processing.",
      "Stale source data can reduce operational trust."
    ],
    "openQuestions": [
      "What defines urgent processing and approval?",
      "What are the post-completion verification and reopen rules?"
    ],
    "constraints": [
      "State, owner, and priority changes require audit logs.",
      "Access is limited by role.",
      "Permission, policy, and state changes require audit logs."
    ]
  },
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      "id": "R1",
      "title": "Intake and data quality",
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      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "F1",
          "title": "Vendor registration and required-document submission",
          "desc": "Connect vendor profiles, qualification checklists, document-expiry alerts, evaluations, and risk reporting.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
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            {
              "title": "Vendor registration and required-document submission core processing rule",
              "desc": "Connect vendor profiles, qualification checklists, document-expiry alerts, evaluations, and risk reporting.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Vendor registration and required-document submission exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Connect vendor profiles, qualification checklists, document-expiry alerts, evaluations, and risk reporting. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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        },
        {
          "id": "F2",
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              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
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            {
              "title": "Vendor registration and required-document submission validation and duplicate prevention core processing rule",
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            {
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                }
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    {
      "id": "R2",
      "title": "Records and search",
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          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
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        }
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            {
              "title": "Vendor profile, contract, and risk-status lookup core processing rule",
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                {
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            {
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        {
          "id": "F4",
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              "title": "Search, filter, and history management core processing rule",
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            {
              "title": "Search, filter, and history management exception and audit handling",
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    {
      "id": "R3",
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        {
          "id": "F5",
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          "status": "todo",
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            {
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          "id": "F6",
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              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management core processing rule",
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              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management exception and audit handling",
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      "id": "R4",
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          "id": "F7",
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              "title": "Approval and policy review exception and audit handling",
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          "id": "F8",
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              "title": "Notifications and subscriptions exception and audit handling",
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        {
          "id": "F10",
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              "title": "External integration and data synchronization core processing rule",
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              "title": "External integration and data synchronization exception and audit handling",
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              "title": "Vendor rating, expiring-document, and risk-status reporting exception and audit handling",
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          "id": "F12",
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              "F4",
              "F7:0",
              "F10:1"
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