SK - Purchases for week 36 Suppler Address Items cost Supporting information (a) Your concerns Birmingham Road, Coventry Local friendly dealer, Salesman plays golf with the our MD. Annual company car replacements. Bristol Street 4 x Ford £80,000.00 Motors PLc Focus GLX Evans Electric Motors Ltd. Designed marks 1 & 21for us. The mark 3 has the worlds best power/weight ratio. Swansea, 450 x mark £100,000.0o Wales 3 motors. The only source we can find. SmalI firm struggling in the Japanese Yokohama, 80 x blue- tooth packs. Mizu $9,000.00 Bluetooth Inc. . Japan recession. 400 m2 Plywood Regular order of base. One of 20 companies from the UK timber merchant association. AAA timber Eastbourne. £25,000.00 trading west Sussex 5 reams of photocopy Sales Director regularly takes a 'long lunch' to pick up any office supplies. Makro "Cash Coventry £9.76 & Carry'. раper b) Your matrix.

You have just started work as the Supply Chain Manager for Skateboards company These powered skate boards are a huge marketing success and the company owner now wants someone to look at his supply chain and see what efficiencies/savings can be made. One of your remits is to assess the supplier management strategy of the firm to ensure we are getting the most from our relationships in the supply network. You have asked (as a start) for a copy of this weeks purchases from Accounts and someone has kindly written some comments next to each entry on the payment run, this is printed overleaf.

Look at this weeks purchases and think about the following;
•Strategic importance of the item to the firm.
•Supply risk to the firm (risk of non-exclusivity or even supply failure).

The substitutability of the product.
•The supplier relationship

1.(a)  Do you have any concerns about this weeks purchases? Write them in the boxes. Can you begin to imagine your objectives for the supplier relationship in each case?