The vendor list nobody owns
Procurement has a spreadsheet. Production has a different spreadsheet. Finance has invoices with typos. The one answer to "who did we use last time?" takes two days and three emails.
Vendor Directory
The bench of people you hire from.
Vendors, contacts, contracts, ratings — one directory, consumed by every module that spends money. Category-aware search, transparent scoring, and a renewal watch so contracts never lapse by accident.
Live
Your vendor bench isn't a list. It's an asset.
The people who deliver on your events are institutional knowledge. Suppliers treats them like one — with real ratings, cross-event history, and contract status always current.
Ratings that aren't ratings
Post-event debriefs never make it to a central record. The crew knows who was great and who was awful; the rating system knows neither.
Contracts in email threads
MSAs, SOWs, and NDAs scattered across inboxes and shared drives. Renewal dates pass unnoticed until someone needs an amendment fast.
Categories that don't carry over
Every team tags vendors their own way. A "stage lighting" vendor in one project is "grip/lighting" in the next. Cross-event aggregation is impossible.
A vendor record that earns its keep.
Every capability keeps the directory current and the relationships live — so the vendor who saved last year's event isn't forgotten by next year's planning.
Vendor directory, shared catalogue
Every vendor in one record — with contacts, categories, rate cards, and contract history. Consumed as a shared picker across Budget, Dispatch, and Spaces.
Ratings tied to real work
Post-assignment ratings logged against the specific work order, with optional comments. Aggregated into a category-level reliability score that actually reflects performance.
Contract lifecycle with renewal alerts
MSA, SOW, NDA records with expiration tracking and renewal-window alerts. No more "oh, that expired two weeks ago."
Polymorphic vendor assignments
One bridge table links vendors to BOM line items, work orders, deals, and SOWs. Cross-event aggregation is a query, not a project.
Category-aware search
UUID-based category membership — multi-category vendors are first-class. Search by capability, then rank by score. No manual list maintenance.
Insurance & compliance fields
Insurance carriers, expiration dates, certification records, and union affiliations tracked per vendor. Compliance is data, not a filing cabinet.
Vendor picker everywhere
A single VendorPicker consumed by Budget SOW counterparty, Dispatch stakeholder assignment, and any future module. No duplicate vendor lists, ever.
Contacts with role metadata
Primary contact, billing contact, technical contact — role-tagged, not free-text. The right person gets the right message every time.
Connected by Design
The directory everything hires from.
Suppliers is the shared catalogue every spending module reaches into. Budget SOW counterparties, Dispatch work-order stakeholders, BOM line items — all resolve to the same vendor record, with the same score, and the same contract.
Inbound — data flowing into Suppliers
DispatchSuppliers
When a work order closes, a post-engagement rating opens. The score aggregates into the vendor record and shifts their reliability ranking for next time.
dispatch.wo.completedOutbound — events Suppliers publishes
SuppliersDispatch
The dispatch router asks for category rankings — the vendor scorer returns them with every signal behind each score, so the router never picks a vendor blind.
suppliers.ranking.requestedSuppliersBudget
A SOW counterparty is picked via the shared vendor picker — the vendor record carries into Budget so line items link back to a real, rated supplier.
suppliers.picker.usedA vendor scorer that shows its signals.
No black-box scalar. Every vendor ranking decomposes into its inputs so a human can override it with judgment — and see why they're overriding.
Vendor scoring with signals exposed
Every score decomposes into its inputs — win rate, on-time delivery, dispute history, rating trend. No black-box scalar; the inputs behind the score are always visible.
Category-fit ranking
When Dispatch routes a work order, a specialist ranks vendors for the category with a transparent scoring function. Producers see the ranking math.
Renewal-window alerts
Flags contracts approaching expiration, with the vendors they affect and the dollar amounts at stake. Renewal conversations start before the gap, not after.
Rating-drift detection
Surfaces vendors whose scores are trending down over multiple events. Not a replacement for human judgment — a prompt for a conversation.
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Stop losing the vendor you loved last year.
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