What’s inside: company memory · audit trail
The question this file answersDo we really need AP, compliance and treasury each rebuilding the same supplier file before the first invoice can be paid?
Fits: banks, payment firms and fintechs where compliance files are still assembled by hand.
Not a measured desk — the finance playbook gives no volume for vendor onboarding, and KYC’s is not borrowed. A new supplier’s tax form, bank letter and questionnaire arrive by e-mail. AP builds a file, sends it to compliance, then treasury; the first invoice arrives before anyone has approved the vendor.
Typical, from the industry playbook — not a client's day.
When the approver opens the queue, each new vendor is one file — documents, extracted details, the list-check result and a note on anything missing — rather than a chain of forwarded e-mails. Their decision takes the time a decision takes; the collecting and retyping no longer sit on their desk.
Typical, not a measured client result. Every figure here comes from the playbook source named below.
documents, details and list checks in one file for the approver — same build as our KYC onboarding file; no published figure for vendor onboarding
Before: AP rebuilds tax forms, bank letters and questionnaires into a file, then waits on compliance and treasury. After: the approver opens one complete file with the checks logged; nothing reaches the vendor master without them. No percentage — the sourced KYC range is on the parent file.
No published benchmark covers vendor onboarding at AP. The McKinsey KYC study (2023) range is about client KYC and is left on the parent file; suppliers are not clients, and the number is not moved. Not an approval-time claim.
Your ERP vendor master and screening tools stay — SAP, Dynamics, World-Check or the ones you run. Our KYC onboarding build, aimed at suppliers rather than clients:
Sanctions hits. Odd banking arrangements. Related-party questions. The approval decision.
Not an approval-time claim.
A bank letter that is a forgery looks like a bank letter — the build checks completeness and lists, not authenticity, which is why the call-back to the bank stays a person’s job. If your vendor master is full of duplicates, the duplicate check will flag most new vendors until it is cleaned.
The path: free 60-second estimate → free 20-minute review → paid audit of this one process (€1.5–3K, typically two weeks) → pilot with your people in the loop (€10–20K, weeks, not quarters). No transformation programme. Prices are public, on the services page →
Scoped in the audit — the playbook has no estimate for this exact desk.
That depends on your volumes and wage costs — this page will not invent the number. The free 60-second estimate runs that calculation from your answers, with every multiplier sourced.
Not a named Aperanda client. Process file · Finance.
Short process file. Same build as its parent file; the playbook has no separate volume or benchmark for this desk.