VendrNova

Keep decision rights, evidence, exceptions, and review connected

VendrNova supports configured roles, permissions, approvals, escalation, SLA tracking, exception handling, and audit trails. It records in-scope workflow decisions and changes to support traceability and review without claiming that workflow software determines legal compliance.

Decision governance

Make authority, evidence, exception, and review reconstructable.

Governance remains connected to the procurement record and the system boundary, not presented as a separate checkbox layer.

01Evidence

Required records remain visible with their source and state.

02Authority

Authorized people retain approvals and exception decisions.

03Boundary

Object ownership and ERP handoffs are explicit.

04Trace

The reason, action, owner, and outcome remain reviewable.

Illustrative Northstar viewHuman action required

Decision trace

Review the rule, evidence, pending owner, exception, human action, and recorded outcome in one decision trace.

Decision VN-ILL-DEC-118 · supplier-evidence and budget review before release

Accountability
Evidence owner: Sofia Alvarez — Supplier Risk Manager · Budget reviewer: Michael Grant — Finance Controller · Release owner: Maya Chen — Director, Global Procurement Operations
Evidence
Supplier insurance: Review required · Budget confirmation: Approved · Technical evaluation: Complete
Policy and system boundary
Configured approval path · 100% approval traceability for approvals completed within the platform
Exception
Supplier evidence must be updated before award release.
Review decision · Request evidence · record person, action, outcome, and timestamp in the illustrative trace

Configure responsibility

Role and permission management, workflow design, business rules, master-data controls, and approval policies can reflect the agreed operating responsibilities.

Route approvals with evidence

Present the request, supporting evidence, policy context, prior decisions, exception, and available actions to the authorized approver.

Make exceptions operable

Exception type, owner, SLA state, evidence request, escalation, and next action remain visible in the workflow.

Preserve the in-platform approval path

100% approval traceability for approvals completed within the platform

This statement applies only to approvals completed within VendrNova. External, manual, and out-of-platform approvals are outside its scope.

Govern AI recommendations through human action

Nova AI can present a recommendation and rationale, but the authorized user remains accountable for accept, edit, reject, or escalate actions.

Review the same decision by stakeholder

Maya Chen — Director, Global Procurement Operations sees workflow ownership. Michael Grant — Finance Controller sees approval and financial context. Marcus Lee — Director, Enterprise Applications sees access and integration control context. Sofia Alvarez — Supplier Risk Manager sees supplier evidence and exceptions.

Security and governance

Start a diligence conversation with status, scope, and ownership clear.

Bring the security, privacy, AI-governance, integration, and evidence questions your review must resolve.

Start a diligence conversationReview governance controls