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Raising the Bar: Step Up Your Supply Chain Game by Refining Your Supplier Selection Process!

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles!

Supply chain management encompasses an extensive range of tasks, systems, and processes that come together to facilitate the optimum flow of materials, goods, and services from the source to the end consumer.

Despite the technological advancements of the past decades which have brought automation and digitalization to the table, ensuring the efficiency and smooth functioning of supply chains has become more difficult than ever due to their increasing complexity and the ongoing transformations taking place across all sectors and markets.

What is the Best Supplier Vetting Process?

Strategic Supplier Relationship Management – Do’s and Don’ts

Does your business rely on at least one supplier? Or do you need multiple suppliers in order to perform your daily operations? Either way the quality, reliability, and value for cost of your suppliers and supplier vetting is crucial to your organization’s success.

On the other side, if your suppliers don’t live up to the standards you require, your organization can be damaged.

Suppliers can tarnish your reputation by causing you to deliver unsatisfactory products to your customers. A supplier with internal problems can delay your orders, making you miss deadlines and break promises. Late or low-quality products could cause you to lose major customers or be forced to process refunds.

It’s vital, then, to use a consistent Supplier Management system to vet excellent suppliers and secure the ones that will help your brand to stay strong.

Strategic Supplier Relationship Management – Do’s and Don’ts

Procurement Don’t go to the Dark Side!

Shortly after I joined the Commodity/Category Management Procurement organization I was invited to attend the annual Strategic Supplier Awards event. It was all about Strategic Supplier Relationship management.

There were Executives from dozens of Suppliers in attendance. The event concluded with award recognition given to Suppliers based on their scoring and standing as being of Strategic value to the company.

Prior to joining the Procurement team I had neither understood nor appreciated the importance of Supplier Relationship management. But having seen how motivated and inspired these Suppliers were I started to understand.

But in the weeks, months and years to come I also became much more informed about the good and bad aspects of Supplier Relationship Management.

From company to company I came to develop a list of Strategic Supplier Relationship Management “Do’s” and “Don’ts”.

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles!

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Procurement is a core function in every single company. Whether purchasing goods or services to support the company’s product offering or purchasing goods or services to support the infrastructure and operation of the company, Procurement is key and featuring our best Procurement articles is more than appropriate.

Depending on the type of industry you are in the Procurement of goods and or services can be the largest, or one of the largest, expense areas. As such the ability to efficiently procure goods to meet all objectives of cost, delivery, quality, and more is essential for not only success, but for survival.

In this “Featuring” series article we are putting the spotlight on Procurement and Purchasing. We are presenting our Top 12 best Procurement articles with information, techniques and approaches which will have something for everyone to learn from and apply in their own situation.