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Build Your Vendor Onboarding Process to Avoid Synthetic Vendors

  • Live Date:  Wednesday, August 21, 2024
  • On-Demand Access:  Last Recorded Session
  • Trainer: Debra R Richardson, MBA, APPM, APM, CPRS

session description

Fraudsters are creating synthetic business identities and posing as legitimate vendors to perpetrate fraud. Attend this webinar to unravel the complexities of business-to-business synthetic vendor ID fraud and to build a robust vendor onboarding process to safeguard against synthetic vendors. Find out which vendor validation may now be critical to spot fake vendors before you add them to your vendor master file.

Sponsored by Financial Operation Network’s VendorInfo, a cloud-based solution that integrates with your ERP system and provides a secure and easy way to onboard and manage your vendors.

Includes Processes For:
  • The definition and implications of Synthetic ID Fraud in the B2B landscape
  • Why it’s now easier for fraudsters to establish synthetic business identities
  • How fraudsters use these synthetic business identities to perpetrate fraud
  • What validation has now become critical to avoid synthetic vendors
  • 5 Step process to avoid setting up fake vendors
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Trainer

Debra R Richardson, MBA, CFE, APM, APPM, CPRS

With over 20 years at Fortune 500 companies including Verizon, General Motors, and Aramark, she trains you and your team with the authentication techniques, internal controls, best practices and vendor validations to avoid fraud, fines and bad vendor data. 

A Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Debra has extensive experience with many of the most prevalent ERPs, including SAP, PeopleSoft, NetSuite, Intacct and Munis, and have helped those in the private or public sector prevent internal and external fraud.

She serves on the NACHA ACH Network Advisory Board, is the Ask The Expert for vendor master file questions with IOFM, is the Chapter President for the Central Atlantic Region IOFM Chapter, and was named one of the Top 10 AP Influencers three years by the AP Association.  

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