Aug 22

Supplier Scorecard: some nice material online

Purchasing, Template    ©2007 Jean-Philippe Massin, 6,031 views No Comments »

There is not A way to make a Supplier Scorecard and to measure & monitor your supplier performance, quality and cost profile. If you are looking for some bright ideas to build-up a supplier scorecard for your company, those  links might be useful:
1) The description of SABRe’ supplier scorecards | release 7 (Supplier Advanced Business [...]

Aug 13

A Supplier Evaluation Survey form

Cool tools, Template    ©2007 Jean-Philippe Massin, 5,211 views 1 Comment »

ESCO Corporation is a global group of companies that manufactures engineered metal parts and components for industrial applications. You will find here a pdf form that ESCO is using to evaluate its key suppliers. Simple but quite extensive. It might gives you good new ideas if you have any plan to monitor more closely your [...]

Jun 18

Potential initiatives to improve the way you buy Printing are written on the graph below.

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Jun 15

Potential appropriate initiatives to improve the way you buy MRO are unveiled on the graph below.

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May 31

A CSR self-assessment questionnaire

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At last! To be honest, it took me quite a while to find a good and relevant CSR self-assessment questionnaire, yes but available free online as well. That surprises me actually: It is such a buzz and so many non-profit-associations are sponsoring CSR that I thought I would find a dozen of them easily. Anyway. That’s a [...]

May 25

23 new opportunities, this time in the logistic and distribution field, on the graph below.

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May 24

16 ideas to improve the way you buy chemicals, on the exhibit attached.

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May 17

15 Opportunities listed there. Feel free to comment and report other good potentials.

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May 14

23 key considerations when reviewing your way of buying Electricity are listed on the graph below.

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May 11

I’ve listed 40 opportunities on the graph below.

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May 10

22 Opportunities listed on the graph below.

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May 08

18 Opportunities to improve the way you buy your fax/copier-machines are listed on the graph below.

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May 07

I’m initiating a “Strategic Sourcing Opportunity” Series based on the Magic triangle I presented some time ago in the post “Creating Value with Strategic Sourcing“. Purpose is to point out the best well-know opportunities one could think about when rolling down a Strategic Sourcing methodology for 12 specific and common spend-categories: stationary, fax machines, photocopiers, [...]

May 04

Some time ago, I’ve published a template to help you out positioning a SG (Sourcing Group) into the Strategic Sourcing’s 4-quadrant Matrix (I call it as well the CSSB matrix as ‘Commodity, Standard, Strategic, Bottleneck), based on the famous Porter’s 5-forces model. This template has the benefit to be easy to understand and to use. [...]