WHSmith: Before Graphite, Vendor Validations Were the 'Wild West'
Customer Story
Before Graphite, vendor onboarding at WH Smith was 100% manual and lived in email. Business owners chased W9s, banking information, restricted-sourcing documents, and vendor compliance packages from suppliers, usually getting back incomplete or incorrect forms the first time. Shared Services then had to manually run TIN checks, verify banking details, and key each new vendor into two systems — Great Plains (ERP) and Aptos (merchandising) — by hand.