Nora
Available to hireNora onboards and qualifies new suppliers so your team never chases a certificate again. She collects, verifies and scores, then hands you one approval decision with the evidence attached.
- Reports to
- Procurement lead
- Works with
- Leo (Sourcing), Theo (Contracts)
- Decides alone
- Document collection, screening, follow-ups
- Asks you
- Final approval, any sanctions hit, risk score above threshold
What supplier qualification is
Supplier qualification is how a company checks that a new supplier meets its legal, tax, quality and compliance requirements before the vendor is created in the ERP and the first PO goes out. For US manufacturers and contractors it usually covers a W-9, business registration, a certificate of insurance at the right limits, bank details, quality or safety records such as ISO certificates or an EMR letter, and sanctions screening. Spain and Latin America call the same process homologation.
Most of the time goes into the work before the decision: requesting documents, chasing the supplier, checking expiry dates and keeping the evidence for an audit. Nora does that work end to end. Your team keeps the final approval and every exception.
The full onboarding and qualification process →Supplier management without a new supplier portal →Supplier qualification in construction: criteria and risk scoring →Procurement suite, specialized tool or AI agent: how to choose →Supplier onboarding software without a supplier portal →How to apply your qualification policy to every supplier document →Using an AI agent on top of SAP Ariba, Coupa or another SRM →Tier 2 and Tier 3 supplier due diligence →Supplier regulation library: what each rule asks for →How Nora homologates a supplier
- 01
Receives the request
From Ada, from a sourcing award by Leo, or from anyone in Slack. She confirms the category, country and expected spend to pick the right requirement set.
- 02
Requests the documents
Emails the supplier a checklist in their language: registration, tax ID, insurance, ISO or sector certificates, bank details, code of conduct. Follows up every 3 business days.
- 03
Verifies each one
Reads the documents, checks expiry dates and issuers, validates the tax ID against the registry and screens the entity and its directors against sanctions and PEP lists.
- 04
Scores the risk
Financial, compliance, geographic and single-source risk on your scale. Anything above the threshold you set is escalated with the reason.
- 05
Hands you the approval pack
One page: what was checked, what passed, what she is unsure about, and a recommendation. On approval she creates the vendor in your ERP and tells Theo to draft the framework agreement.
- Company registrationverified
- Tax ID (ES-B12345678)registry match
- Liability insurance €2Mvalid to 03/2027
- ISO 9001:2015valid to 11/2026
- Sanctions & PEP screeningno hits
- Code of conduct signedchased ×2
Questions about Nora
What does Nora do?
Nora is Traza's AI agent for supplier homologation. When your team wants to buy from a new supplier, she collects the required documents, verifies each one, screens the company and its directors against sanctions and PEP lists, scores the supplier's risk and hands you one approval pack with the evidence attached. You make the final approval.
Which documents does Nora collect from a new supplier?
She sends the supplier a checklist in their language covering company registration, tax ID, insurance, ISO or sector certificates, bank details and a signed code of conduct. The checklist follows your own requirement set for the category, country and expected spend. She follows up every 3 business days until each document is in.
How does Nora verify supplier documents?
She reads every document and checks expiry dates and issuers. She validates the tax ID against the official registry and screens the entity and its directors against sanctions and PEP lists. Anything she is unsure about is listed in the approval pack, not hidden.
What does Nora decide on her own, and what does she ask you?
She handles document collection, screening and follow-ups on her own. She always asks a person for the final approval, for any sanctions hit and for any risk score above the threshold you set, and she gives the reason when she escalates.
How does Nora score supplier risk?
She scores financial, compliance, geographic and single-source risk on your scale. Suppliers above your threshold are escalated to your team with the reason, and the score appears in the approval pack next to the evidence behind it.
Which systems does Nora work with?
She works inside the tools your team already uses: SAP vendor master, Coupa, Gmail or Outlook, Slack, DocuSign, sanctions lists, tax registries and D&B. On approval she creates the vendor in your ERP and asks Theo, Traza's contracts agent, to draft the framework agreement.
How long does it take to start with Nora?
She starts from your existing requirement checklist and your ERP, so there is no requirement set to build from scratch. The first approval packs come from your real supplier requests during the pilot, and your team approves each one.
Give Nora your next ten suppliers.
She starts with your existing requirement checklist and your ERP. The first approval packs come from your real supplier requests.