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Supplier Relationship Management: Tips for Successful Collaboration

Empowering CPO

In essence, SRM is a comprehensive approach to managing an enterprise’s interactions with the organizations that supply the goods and services it uses. The main objective of SRM is to streamline and improve processes between a buyer and its suppliers. Risk Mitigation: As mentioned, part of SRM involves risk management.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

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It is arguably true that supplier performance management is considered a business practice for measuring, analyzing, and managing supplier performance to reduce cost, and risk and also drive continuous improvement. What to evaluate should be related to the requirements of the particular buyer (Knowledge Works, CIPS).

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5 Steps Towards Modernizing Supplier Management

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When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. Even reducing costs often depends more on effective collaboration rather than negotiation in today’s market. To top it all off, extremely tight supply markets have further shifted negotiating leverage from buyers to suppliers.

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BCG’s 10 Step Plan for Procurement Excellence

Procurement Software

Very few CEOs come from Procurement or Supply Chain. Supply Chain should become one of the top agenda items on board level meetings. These are natural partners for a 360º Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) approach. Not ignoring the importance of regular, two-way feedback between buyer and supplier is also key.