Ask anyone running a factory floor or a warehouse gate, and they\'ll say the real bottleneck usually isn\'t the vendor showing up late. It\'s what happens after: material sitting at the gate while someone tracks down an approval, or a delivery getting logged on one register while the vendor\'s own entry gets logged elsewhere. Two separate processes, two paper trails, neither talking to the other. That\'s the gap a properly connected vendor management system is meant to close.