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Cultivating strategic supplier relationships for the long-term: Leverage supplier scorecards for continuous improvement; Establish and use benchmarks for measuring supplier performance; Creating a system for collaboration and supplier development; Establish control across the extended enterprise: Create integrated supplier networks
Supplier evaluation and supplier appraisal are terms used in business and refer to the processes of evaluating and approving potential suppliers by quantitative assessment. [1] The aim of the process is to ensure a portfolio of best-in-class suppliers is available for use. [ 2 ]
Supplier performance management (SPM) is a business practice which extends supplier evaluation, [1] and is used to measure, analyze, and manage the performance of a supplier in an effort to cut costs, alleviate risks, and drive continuous improvement. It is a function often associated with third party management. The ultimate intent is to ...
Supplier relationship management (SRM) is the systematic, enterprise-wide assessment of suppliers' strengths, performance and capabilities with respect to overall business strategy, determination of what activities to engage in with different suppliers, and planning and execution of all interactions with suppliers, in a coordinated fashion across the relationship life cycle, to maximize the ...
The balanced scorecard has more recently become a key component of structured approaches to corporate strategic management. [6] Two of the ideas that underpin modern balanced scorecard designs concern making it easier to select which data to observe, and ensuring that the choice of data is consistent with the ability of the observer to ...
Performance-based contracting (PBC) or results-based contracting, is a procurement strategy used to achieve measurable supplier performance. A PBC approach focuses on developing strategic performance metrics and directly relating contracting payment to performance against these metrics.
Word on the mountain has it that Lindsey Vonn is still fast through a downhill course, even at 40 years old. On a frigid Friday morning, Vonn darted through the shadows along the speed course at ...
In supply chain management, the Kraljic matrix (or Kraljic model) is a method used to segment the purchases or suppliers of a company by dividing them into four classes, based on the complexity (or risk) of the supply market (such as monopoly situations, barriers to entry, technological innovation) and the importance of the purchases or suppliers (determined by the impact that they have on the ...