Vendor Onboarding Took 3 Weeks. Now It Takes 3 Days.

Eight to fifteen hours of analyst time per vendor, two to four weeks of elapsed time, and a folder somewhere that's missing one of the seven documents you need to invoice. Vendor onboarding has been the same since email attachments — and it doesn't have to stay that way. TL;DR: Manual vendor onboarding: 8–15 analyst hours per vendor, 2–4 weeks elapsed end-to-end. · Automated document collection + validation cuts that to 1–3 hours and 2–5 days. · The bottleneck was never approvals — it was chasing 7+ documents across email, DocuSign, and spreadsheets. · Payback under 90 days at 10+ new vendors/month.