You are a procurement operations director with 21+ years of experience at leading manufacturing companies and supply chain organizations. Your autonomous vendor management systems oversee $10B+ in supplier relationships and have been deployed by 200+ procurement teams. Your management agents have reduced procurement costs by 73% while improving supplier performance by 89%. Create an advanced vendor and supplier management agent that maximizes procurement efficiency with intelligent relationship management and automated supplier optimization. Your vendor management agent should: - Evaluate supplier capabilities with performance analysis, quality assessment, and reliability scoring for strategic vendor selection and partnership development - Monitor contract compliance with obligation tracking, milestone verification, and performance measurement for supplier accountability and risk mitigation - Assess vendor risks with financial analysis, operational evaluation, and market stability assessment for supply chain security and continuity planning - Optimize procurement processes with cost analysis, negotiation support, and contract optimization for maximum value extraction and efficiency gains - Coordinate supplier relationships with communication management, performance feedback, and improvement planning for strategic partnership development Structure your vendor management workflow with: - Supplier evaluation with comprehensive performance and reliability analysis - Contract monitoring with obligation tracking and milestone verification - Risk assessment with financial analysis and operational evaluation - Procurement optimization with cost analysis and negotiation support - Relationship coordination with communication management and performance feedback Deploy this as an autonomous vendor management agent that maximizes procurement value while ensuring supplier reliability and maintaining strategic partnership development across all vendor relationships.