Over the last several years, supplier management has become a boardroom and C-level issue. One only needs to look at some recent headlines to see how important managing supplier relationships can be to an entire brand and the bottom-line. Reference a recent story if possible.
The story of lead paint being discovered in Mattel manufactured toys back in July 2007 has been well documented. Since these issues at Mattel were caused by the supply chain and Chinese suppliers, one could argue that this event was one of the forces behind the overall SIM movement. The impact to Mattel's brand image and stock price has been tremendous. The timeline and stock impact can clearly be seen in Figure 1 . From the time of the first published announcement in July 2007 to the final settlement payment in December 2008, the stock and overall brand value of the company took a huge hit. What was the overall cost to Mattel for this failure in supplier management? The total impact to the stakeholders may never actually be calculated.
Supplier Management is all about: Putting all supplier information in one place to make it accessible to all that need it Supplier management focus should be for risk, compliance, and performance management Goal is to manage all your suppliers and not just the most strategic Supplier management impacts many processes across the org including pre and post contract processes.
When companies start out, they are small and grow over time. Typically growing through acquisition. The number of applications that contain supplier data grows as does the data that is out of date, etc. Causes costs to rise, data quality to degrade, risk to increase, and adds to overall supply chain complexity
Supplier management impacts most if not all operating areas of the company. Each operating area such as sourcing, procurement, supply chain, and finance/AP have different needs and thus different issues.
All companies can segment suppliers into groups based on category, spend, level, and importance to the business. Each group of suppliers has different requirements to manage them. The “transactional” group is typically lots of suppliers and thus self-service and data quality and spend controls are critical. The “tactical” group typically is more important to the company and requires more compliance and risk controls. The “strategic” group is typically the smallest in number but warrants the most in terms of governance, risk, and performance scorecarding.
If you look at the supplier management lifecycle, however you view it, supplier risk and performance management requirements are throughout.
Financial stability – Are your suppliers under financial stress? Can they perform? Insurance – Do your suppliers carry sufficient insurance? Security & Continuity risk – Is my confidential information secure? Continuity for disasters? Performance risk – Are suppliers meeting your expectations on delivery, cost, quality, scale? Regulatory risk – Do your suppliers have the necessary certifications? SOX? US Patriot Act? Safety risk – Do your suppliers meet your safety standards? Production risk – Does a suppliers’ failure pose risk to your production?
What company can manage suppliers and thus risk exposure on their own these days? Requires too many specialties and too many resources to be effective.
What risks and issues exist outside your tier 1 suppliers?
Enterprise supplier management can have a very large impact to the bottom line of companies. The costs to manage a supplier are made up of several areas as can be seen. (1) Spend related savings/costs – focus more spend to preferred suppliers and suppliers that are lower in risk and better performing (2) Process costs – cost savings by improved operating efficiency and improved data quality (3) Direct Costs – retiring other systems, communication savings, data management costs (4) Risk – supplier disruption can have huge costs and impacts including supply disruption, brand impacts, fines, etc.
Forget CVM, if a customer is looking to do anything in supplier management, these are the critical requirements to be successful: Technology Data Services
CVM has proven growth, profitability, and customer adoption. 4.3M suppliers being managed across all our customer deployments is a strong proof point
Supplier Central is our core offering and is comprised of technology, data, and managed services focused on supplier management. It’s all we do. Sits on top of and leverages CVM Master Supplier Database
Using CVM Supplier Central, customers can address 4 main solution areas: VMM – getting all supplier info centrally managed, searchable and integrated into people, processes and systems that need it Risk – mitigate supplier risk across all groupings and tiers of suppliers Perf Mgt – measure, monitor, and compare performance across suppliers Divers Mgt – improve spending and management of diverse suppliers CVM is committed to offering best-in-class products to address these 4 solution areas. SC was deigned from the ground up to meet customer requirements in these areas.
CVM Supplier Central TM 6.0 redefines the next generation supplier management platform combining technology, data, and managed services into a one-stop shop for customer supplier management needs.
With the release of 6.0, CVM has focused on 4 main areas:
/ / Suppliers Beyond Tier 1 Easy Supplier Engagement Model Accurate and Validated Supplier Data Supplier Data Enrichment Services Supplier Management Process Automation Fast, Easy and Cost Effective Deployment
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