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 overview of the whys, whats, and hows of evaluating supplier performance. Attendees will have the ability to submit questions before, during and after the webinar. I’ll be covering the following:

• Why you should measure supplier performance
• What should you measure and how to figure that out
• Examples of commonly measured areas
• Why you need to use leading indicators, not just lagging indicators
• Why supplier risk has become so critical and ways address it
• How to segment your supply base in order to decide which suppliers to measure
• Common sources and types of supplier information and evaluation approaches
• Supplier evaluation implementation examples and success factors

I hope you’ll join me and PMAC. I’m told that signup has been excellent, but that all the attending companies, not surprisingly, are Canadian so far. It is open to all. So I thought I’d mention it here for those outside of Canada who don’t get PMAC notices. Hope you can join me.

To sign up and to learn about other upcoming PMAC webinars, visit this link.