Has anyone gone thru a vendor onboarding with InterPublic group (IPG)? Who can tell me what it’s like / what’s involved? We just won a project and in curious… I hear the vendor onboarding / setup is lengthy and “intense” but would love to know how long it takes and what do they need from you that makes it “intense?”

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I went through it while at Golin. It was super annoying and took 2 months to finalize everything after pointless redlining from legal.

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Thanks for sharing ok 2 months… so it was just the legal back and forth on an MSA or what were you redlining? Know if there are any financial requirements? Or documentation ?

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