vendor data hygiene

Vendor Master Data Hygiene: The Housekeeping That Prevents Fraud, Duplicate Payments, and 1099 Failures

A vendor master file that's been accumulating additions for years without cleanup is a source of duplicate payments, fraud opportunities, stale bank routing numbers, expired W-9s, and 1099 year-end chaos. Vendor master hygiene — periodic deduplication, status review, TIN validation, and banking verification — is one of the highest-ROI AP disciplines that most teams skip.