When creating a project, it is possible to assign vendors in the Workflow page. This needs to be possible during all project phases, but as soon as a project has passed the Project Planning step, the Workflow page does not allow the selection of vendors anymore. As the Vendors tab is then missing completely in the Workflow page, you can only re-assign to a vendor in the Stages view. When in an existing project all manual steps need to be re-assigned from an internal user to a vendor, the project managers need to do this from the Stages view.

Example: re-assign the translation to a vendor in the Stages view. Then the project manager needs to wait for the translation to complete, only then can the review task be re-assigned in the Stages view. After that, the PM needs to wait for the vendor to complete the Review before they can re-assign the DTP task from the stages view. The vendor doing the DTP task needs to wait for the DTP task to pop up in the Stages view of the project manager.

If the PM is currently not available to do the re-assign from the Stages view, the DTP work cannot start. This is very tedious for the PM as well as for the vendor. It would be much better to always be able to pre-assign all manual tasks from the Workflow view rather than doing it step by step from the Stages view.