I recently gave a workshop on supplier evaluation in a lean environment as part of the AME Lean Conference. Because the attendees of my workshop already had a working knowledge of lean principles and practices, they were quite different from many audiences I have presented to and interacted with on the subject of supplier evaluation [...]
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I am in Covington, Kentucky attending the AME International Lean Conference, Journey to Greatness. Attendance is excellent despite the economy and its adverse impact on other conferences this year. This may be due to various lean journeys presented by practitioners and couldn’t be more relevant in a down economy. AME (Association for Manufacturing Excellence) [...] The Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC) is offering a monthly webinar series on various topics of interest. As the second in the series, I am giving a webinar entitled: Evaluating Your Suppliers: Practical Approaches to Getting Results. It runs from 12:00 pm until 1:30 pm ET on Thursday, October 15th. This is a practical [...] The government has helped bail out Chrysler. The government has not bailed out its suppliers. And now Chrysler is looking to get back in the game on the backs of its suppliers, who, if they are still in business, are not eager become lenders to their customers. Chrysler has received over $10.4B from the government so far. And [...] Mark your calendar for Thursday, September 10, 2009, when I will be the speaker for the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management’s (IACCM) Ask the Expert call: “Selecting the Right Suppliers: Challenges and Best Practices“. Tim Cummins, President and CEO of IACCM, will host this discussion with me. The session will cover the following areas: [...] Supply management, procurement and quality professionals are increasingly aware that they should be measuring their suppliers’ performance and working with important suppliers on performance improvement. In their enthusiasm for going forward with these initiatives, some people make some errors that can impede or stall progress. Here are a few mistakes people making when trying [...] Supply managers and buyers have always had the challenge not just of finding suppliers but finding suppliers who are both high-performing and “best value”. Numerous supplier evaluation and supplier performance management software solutions are now available, where ten years ago very few options existed. Most options that I’m aware of are either SaaS (software [...] Many people struggle with getting senior management support for supplier performance management initiatives. And, according to the editor-in-chief of Supply Chain Digest in his July 2nd editorial, many people don’t even know what senior management support means. Most know that you’re supposed to need it or you might not get very far with implementing [...] In a survey of 223 procurement, supply chain and supplier relationship management by the consultancy, State of Flux, almost two-thirds said that they did not have a definition of Supplier Relatinonship Management (SRM) in their companies. The conclusion of Alan Day, Managing Director of State of Flux, a supply chain consultancy in the UK, [...] Many people are looking for advice about how to create supplier scorecards specifically and how to measure supplier performance generally. Listen as Sherry Gordon is interviewed about measuring supplier performance by Sandra Gauvin, Editor of Current Quality newsletter. In this in-depth interview, you will learn: Why you should measure supplier performance How to figure out what to [...] |
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