Your New Liner Supplier Cannot Ship Yet: Vendor Setup, Insurance Certificates, and Payment Terms

Choosing a liner supplier is not the same as being able to buy from one. This guide covers the account-opening work that sits between a signed-off bid and the first pallet: tax status, credit applications and payment terms, W-9s, insurance certificates and building access requirements, and how to run the three approval tracks in parallel instead of discovering them one at a time.

The specification is written. The quotes have been normalized. A sample ran in the real location for a full cycle and the facilities director signed off. The savings are on a spreadsheet and the purchase request is approved. Three weeks later, no liners have arrived. Nobody is stalling. Two organizations each had to open a file on the other and nobody owned that work. The supplier is waiting on a tax certificate. Accounts payable is waiting on a W-9. The property manager will not let a new carri...

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