TOPIC 1 - ASSESS SUPPLIERS AND BUILD PRODUCTIVE RELATIONSHIP
CRITERIA TO ENABLE AN EFFECTIVE EVALUATION OF SUPPLIER SERVICES ARE DEVELOPED AND DOCUMENTED
Supplier evaluation scorecards are used by many industries and are critical to an organisation’s success, but there is no specific way to create a scorecard. Based on the available research and the document analysis, quality, delivery, total cost and service are the main criteria that should be part of the scorecard.
Industry reviews show that in service is becoming a critical evaluation aspect to differentiate suppliers. The criteria should be well-defined, and not subjective to how the user or evaluator interprets it. For the purpose of consistency among buyers in an organisation, subjectivity needs to be minimum. Supplier evaluations should rate the performance of all suppliers equally; therefore it is important the criteria be measured objectively. Following are some recommendations for developing assessment criteria: • Find out short-term and long-term goals of the supply management
• Look at suppliers and their products that need evaluation
• Create a proposal that determines time, resources and scope of the project
• Have management create a cross-functional team (Suppliers should be included at this stage for maximum results)
• Define the priority criteria (Include the core criteria: Quality, Delivery, Total Cost and Services)
• Determine the weight of each criteria, based on the goals of the company (Make
On November 2, 2015, in Chicago, Il, a 9 year old boy named Tyshawn Lee who was said to be a “fun-loving child that enjoyed video games and basketball” (Christina Coleman) was lured into an alley where he was murdered. Tyshawn had been shot multiple times in the upper back and head”. It looked as though it had been just another random spray of bullets, or another missed target, however after some investigation; Authorities released information that the death of Tyshawn Lee was no accident. On the contrary this senseless murder was an act of retaliation of rival gang members. According to police Tyshawn Lee’s father was gang affiliated which consequently lead to the death of the young boy.
People: The emergence of the triple bottom line has led to companies becoming more aware of how their decisions affect not only employees and customers but those within the community they operate in. To achieve this in an ever changing global world a company needs to create policies and guidelines on how to select suppliers and evaluate performance.
As a marketing manager, you have recently turned down Nancy Conrad for a position as sales supervisor. Nancy believes the denial was due to her gender, and she has filed a sex discrimination charge with the EEOC. Explain the steps the EEOC will use to process the charge; include Nancy's options during the process.
We should first consider adding external resources, including external contractors and existing cross-functional teams. We reason that additional team members could optimize processes to help recover sales, marketing, and local supply chain functions that in turn could add potential value and competitive
This case analysis explores quality management issues as it pertains to Trexler, a supplier of Integrated Devices, and suggestions to process improvement in order to increase quality throughout the value chain. This paper critically deciphers the weaknesses and opportunity areas that Integrated Logistics should research before continued business with Trexler is attempted. This analysis includes research and best practices outlined by Monczka, Handfield, Giunipero, and Patterson (2011) relative to the case study.
In terms of using the Scorecard for plant quality engineers, Ellie Smith commented that although the Scorecard improved the awareness about the performance of suppliers, it did not increase the reactivity in the selection of suppliers because of the lack of detailed data and query functions during the evaluating process. Moreover, the Scorecard did not incorporate with suppliers’ feedback and Metalcraft also lacks process of evaluating the products of suppliers and make further improvement. For example, one of the suppliers Jack Dawkins compliant that their products were clean when left their company, however, it turns dirty when arrived at Metalcraft. Surprisingly, the supplier did not have any chance to defend and explain the situation and Metalcraft rejected their products without any discussion between the two companies. Metalcraft did not find a way to solve the problem at that time rather showed inappropriate attitude to the supplier.
Suppliers’ perceptions are focuses on two dimensions which consist of the value of the business that your company is offering to suppliers in relation to their own turnover levels and the combination of other factors determine the level of attractiveness of
All employees involved in any aspect of purchasing on behalf of the NorthStar Group are either directly or indirectly representing our business to external stakeholders.
The project manager would inform the suppliers of the needs that they are expected to meet and give them a time frame that is considerable to
My objective was to recommend solutions to the supply of inferior quality sheet metal. I have to decide to retain the errant supplier and have recommended a roll out of supplier development strategies. I have recommended the optimal sequence of rollout of strategies for supplier development and did well!
The documentary ‘Going Clear’ is focused on the Church of Scientology. Some of the important figures in the documentary included Paul Haggis, Lawrence Wright, Sara Goldberg, Spanky Taylor, and Marthy Rathbun (Going Clear). In this documentary, these former scientologists were interviewed about their personal experiences, where they revealed information about what actually happened behind the doors of the Church. The documentary was based on Lawrence Wright’s book, ‘Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief’ and was a compilation of the opinions of several former scientologists about the true colors of Scientology and Hubbard’s history (Going Clear).
Stage 9 – Choose supplier – based on the previous stages the purchaser will identify which supplier they will make relationships with, maybe being strategic alliance or partnerships.
With the availability of this data, it will be possible to identify the top issues and the true performance of suppliers’ quality. The drive for this metric will help identify the areas of supplier quality that require additional focus to drive quality improvements (Haustein, 2012). The data will provide management with the information to identify correlations of PRRs to plant shutdowns, yard-holds, and other costly actions from supplier quality issues. By creating a landscape analysis of the supplier quality department, the strategic elements are assessed to determine areas of improvement in addition to quantifying metrics of defects.
Service quality represents a fundamental aspect of delivery, which strongly influences consumer satisfaction and, as a result, loyalty. In today’s global market a customer’s service expectation has to be met and exceeded eventually in order to retain customers as well as achieve success. Perceived quality of a product or a service is becoming one of the major competitive factors in the business world and has led to the innovation of the ‘Quality Era’ (Peeler, 1996). In simple words, the comparison of customer expectations with service performance is service quality. On the other hand, customer satisfaction is defined as a pleasurable fulfilment response toward a good, service, benefit, or reward (Oliver, 1997). Both of these
Selecting and finding vendors can be a varied process depending on whether you are a large corporation like Kohl’s or a boutique that might be a small local shop. For this assignment, I identify the business as an independent boutique. One thing to keep in mind about the selection of vendors is that loyalty is key for both the wholesaler/vendor and the retailer. While there are a handful of different types of vendors, certain kinds work best for a boutique.