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Vendor Lifecycle Management

Vendor lifecycle management is the organizational capability (people, policies, and technology) that ensures third-party relationships are consistently governed from initiation to termination. Where the TPCRM lifecycle describes the process steps, vendor lifecycle management describes the program infrastructure that makes those steps repeatable at scale. See: TPCRM Lifecycle.