Supplier Evaluation and Performance Monitoring (SL4)

You can evaluate your company’s suppliers to obtain a basis for your business relationship with them and to optimize your supply base. Based on the feedback you gather through questionnaires, you obtain a scorecard for each supplier evaluated. The scorecard helps you to assess a supplier’s strengths and shortcomings and to initiate measures for improvement. Evaluation scorecards also enable you to easily compare suppliers within a peer group.

A combined real-time view across operational and questionnaire-based scores provides a holistic view of your supplier’s performance. This scope item provides two different use cases for the category manager:

Evaluate supplier performance and analyze KPIs based on the evaluation.

Key Process Steps Covered

• Evaluate suppliers' operational performance
• Perform evaluation by questionnaire
• Perform evaluation by user-defined criteria
• Establish supplier evaluation score history

Benefits

• Define questionnaires
• Create and manage group-based evaluation templates
• Analyze scorecards
• Monitor supplier evaluation by questionnaire

Where is Supplier Evaluation and Performance Monitoring(SL4) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

• As a core function of Supplier Management within Sourcing and Procurement Scope Item Group

Process flow of Supplier Evaluation and Performance Monitoring (SL4)

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