Supplier and contractor management for industrial plants
Last updated: August 13, 2026
A plant lives with two distinct third-party populations and usually manages them on incompatible terms: production suppliers, whose delivery reliability determines whether the line stops, and service and maintenance contractors, whose documentation determines whether anyone can walk in. Verdana runs both from one record with separate rules for each.
On the supply side it covers supplier qualification with technical and quality assessment, requisitions and purchase orders, goods receipt with discrepancy and rejection reasons, follow-up on committed dates, and delivery performance measurement. That history feeds formal supplier evaluation and resourcing decisions rather than being reconstructed from memory in the monthly review.
On the contractor side it covers company qualification, worker-level employment and safety documentation, mandatory training and site induction, and plant access authorization connected to the access control system. A turnaround — where hundreds of people from dozens of companies enter within days — is prepared weeks ahead in the platform, and on start day each person is either qualified or is not.
The measurement that matters downstream is delivery performance calculated honestly: the currently committed date, not the original one, compared against the recorded receipt, with completeness and timeliness counted together. That requires active follow-up on supplier confirmations, which is exactly the work the platform removes from the expediting team.