In plain English
This means the supplier cannot be approved yet because the required compliance check is still being finished. It is a supplier approval status showing that the approval decision is waiting until it is determined whether the supplier meets the applicable compliance requirements.
In context
Here, it marks the supplier record as having an approval decision that is still waiting for the compliance review to be completed.
- Situation
- Running procurement, vendor review, purchase approval, and contract workflow
- What it communicates
- labels a supplier record waiting for compliance assessment
Meaning limits
By itself, this status does not say whether the supplier will be approved or found to meet the applicable compliance requirements.
Examples
“Although the commercial terms were agreed, the supplier remained pending compliance review because the compliance check was not yet complete.”
“The buyer marked the supplier record as pending compliance review while the approval decision was still waiting on the compliance check.”