Vendor and contract management
- Checks outstanding
- 6
- Risk points from what this vendor touches
- 5
- Risk points from annual spend
- 2
Nothing in these worksheets is a figure we found somewhere. Every number comes from the inputs you enter and the method stated on the page: completeness is the five onboarding items you tick, diligence is a baseline of three checks plus points for data access, site access, single-sourcing and spend, and the score is your own weights applied to your own ratings. The defaults are a worked example, not a recommendation and not a benchmark.
Vendor and contract management are usually sold as one thing because for a small business they are one thing: the contract is the most important document on the vendor's record, and the vendor is the only sensible place to keep the contract. What matters is not storing the PDF, which a shared drive does fine. It is the three dates inside it that nobody extracts: when it started, when it renews, and how many days of notice you have to give before it does. A contract nobody has read the notice clause of is a contract that renews itself.
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Extract the three dates when you file it
Start, renewal and notice. It takes two minutes at filing and it is the only part of a contract most people ever need to look up again. Everything else can stay in the PDF.
Diarise notice, not renewal
The renewal date is too late to be useful. If notice is 60 days, the date that matters is 60 days before renewal, and that is the one that belongs on the record and in somebody's calendar.
Review before the notice window, with evidence
A renewal decision made in the last week is a renewal by default. On the worked example a supplier scoring 74 against a 70 threshold is a keep; the same supplier at 66 is a conversation, and having the number before the window closes is what makes it possible.
Vendor and contract management: common questions
Where should contracts live, the drive or the vendor record?
The file can live anywhere. The dates have to live on the vendor record, because that is what gets looked at when the question is asked, and a date in a PDF in a folder is a date nobody will see.
What is a notice period and why does it matter more than the renewal date?
It is how far in advance you must say you are leaving. Miss it by a day and you are committed for another term regardless of the renewal date, which is why the notice date is the one worth alerting on.
Do we need contract management software as well?
For redlining, negotiation and e-signature at volume, yes, and that is a separate category. For knowing what you signed and when it renews, the vendor record is enough and is one fewer system.
Venbix Pro
Keeping the record
The worksheet scores one vendor on one day. Pro remembers it: the supplier, its documents and their expiry dates, the contract and when notice is due, the onboarding stage it reached, and every scorecard you have ever given it.
- Download the pack or scorecard as a file you can send
- Send it to a supplier or an auditor without the Venbix watermark
- Come back to this vendor's sheet with the figures still in it
- Put your own logo on what suppliers and auditors see
- Take every vendor, document and contract out at once, as a file
- Send a supplier its onboarding request without leaving the record
- Not used by Venbix: nothing here takes a payment from your suppliers
- Match the vendor list against the suppliers your books already know
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On the worked example, a vendor scoring 74 out of 100 sits four points above a 70 review threshold, which is a renewal decision made on evidence rather than in the last week of a notice window.
Vendor due diligence checklist (Checks outstanding): 6, Venbix, worked example.
Cite as: "Vendor and contract management, Venbix", updated 2026-09-04, https://venbix.com/vendor-and-contract-management/.