How it works · Vendor & Contract Management
From request to realised value, in one connected model.
The AlignX Vendor and Contract workflow manages the full lifecycle of supplier relationships and contractual commitments, while keeping every vendor decision, obligation, renewal, risk and performance issue connected to the business capability, investment, system and outcome it affects.
Vendor and contract work is not one linear process. A trigger enters, AI triage classifies and routes it to the right specialist workflow, the decision is captured with full lineage, delivery and operations stay aligned, and value is reviewed against outcomes. One common intake, a small set of specialist workflows, one shared governance and outcome process.
Inside Microsoft 365How work flows, trigger to outcome.
Real enterprise events start the work.
Context at the front door.
AlignX captures the work item and links it to the relevant portfolio, programme, project, capability or vendor record, classifies the request type, recommends the specialist workflow, detects duplicate vendors and overlapping contracts, identifies affected capabilities, systems, projects, risks and controls, flags renewal or expiry urgency, identifies commercial, security, privacy and compliance risks, and recommends reviewers.
Purpose-built reviews do the work.
Vendor qualification and onboarding
Assess whether a supplier can be safely and responsibly engaged: capability, financial stability, risk, compliance and security.
Procurement and commercial evaluation
Evaluate sourcing options and value on complete context, not just price.
Contract lifecycle management
Manage contracts from creation through approval, execution, administration, renewal, exit and closure, as active enterprise objects, not buried documents.
Vendor risk and compliance management
Manage the risk, compliance and assurance posture of vendors, connected to the services, systems, data and controls they affect.
Vendor performance and relationship management
Manage the ongoing relationship, connecting performance to capability, delivery, service quality, risk and cost.
Strategic vendor portfolio management
Optimise the vendor portfolio for value, risk and strategy, including concentration risk and consolidation.
The decision is captured, with lineage.
Vendor and contract decisions are captured with rationale, options, approvals, conditions, risks and full lineage: approve, approve with conditions, defer, renegotiate or redesign, reject, or exit and terminate.
Delivery stays aligned; outcomes feed back.
Approved decisions link to projects, services, obligations, milestones, spend, performance and SLAs, with risk and compliance monitored. Value is reviewed against expected outcomes, savings and benefits, and learning feeds future sourcing plans.
Built for the people who own this work.
Secure in your tenant, connected to everything.
It runs inside your Microsoft environment, under your identity and controls, and hands off cleanly to every other AlignX module on the same connected model.
Enterprise decisions. Connected. Intelligent. Governed.