Multi-stage vendor onboarding flowchart with sequential approval gates across procurement, legal, finance, and operations teams. Applications flow through initial completeness review, legal compliance validation, financial risk assessment, and final operations approval, with feedback loops for corrections and escalation paths for borderline cases. This structured process ensures consistent vendor vetting, reduces compliance risk, and prevents unsuitable vendors from accessing systems. Fork this diagram on Diagrams.so to customize approval criteria, add SLAs, or integrate with your procurement system documentation. The escalation-to-senior-management branch handles edge cases where financial risk is marginal, balancing speed with governance.