Identifying risk and protecting your company brand are key considerations when managing your supply chain. Contractors and suppliers bring specialization, but they also bring risk to your organization.
BROWZ has over 12 years of experience developing and implementing supplier pre-qualification programs for the worlds largest organizations. We’ve seen the elements of a successful program.
This webinar will focus on 11 ways to jumpstart a contractor qualification program highlighting specific areas to address when designing and implementing a program.
Items covered:
Using key metrics to monitor your qualification program
Accounting for multiple levels of risk throughout the supply chain
Identifying 9 common qualification standards
Assessing financial health of suppliers
7. Task Hours per year
Explaining Requirements 1
Answering questions specific to compliance / holding accountable 2
Collecting documentation 1.5
Entering data 1.5
Validating data 2
Monitoring data for expiration / change 2
Coordinating data requests with other departments 2
Total Hours/Year Per Contractor 12
2080 work hours per year / 12 = 173 contractors
One full time employee needed for every 173 contractors
17. Insurance Requirements
Limits coordinated with legal counsel
General Aggregate and Excess/Umbrella Liability
Each Occurrence and Excess/Umbrella Liability
**Named Certificate Holder
Definition
Stakeholders
Prequalification vs ongoing qualification
Who should be qualified
Client would provide data, found didn’t exist
Story of Ameren 5 % compliant vs 85%
Be realistic- what can you and your team currently manage
Conservatively assume 1 FTE -300 contractors
1 hr a year explaining requirements
2 hrs a year answering questions specific to compliance / holding accountable
1.5 hrs a year collecting documentation
1.5 hrs a year entering data in spreadsheets/data
2 hrs a year validating data
2 Monitoring data for expiration
2 hrs a year coordinating with other departments unless able to share data
Accounting for High, medium and low risk contractors and supplier (BROWZ RISK SPECTRUM)
Why define programs
Additional levels of qualification
Complexity of requirements
Need for specialized systems
Carrot and the stick
Protect your company
Reward your partners
Customer and Shareholder value
Insurance requirements – (umbrella)
Limits need to be coordinate with your legal counsel
Commonly see : General Aggregate and Excess/Umbrella Liability Aggregate limits must be at least $1,000,000 OR Each Occurrence and Excess/Umbrella Liability Each Occurrence limits must be at least $1,000,000 | Open | Insurance Limit Under Minimum
MUST BE CURRENT / HAVE A WAY TO MANAGE
Strongly recommend being added as certificate holder
An effective General Liability policy must be provided
Must provide Additional Insured endorsement for General Liability policy
The sum of the General Liability (policy # not available) Each Occurrence and Excess/Umbrella Liability Each Occurrence limits must be at least
An effective Automobile Liability policy must be provided
Automobile Liability policy (policy # not available) must have an expiration date entered and must not be expired
Policy limit of x
An effective Workers Compensation policy must be provided
#6 Safety Statistics
Minimum 4 years safety and historical data if available
Safety Historical Statistics notifications must be sent for 2015 by March 31 (used for trending and forecasting)
Total Lost Work Day Cases
Total Recordable cases
Total restricted cases
Osha 300 Logs / 300 A
Total Fatality Cases must not be more than 0 for the previous required statistics data year (Strongly consider)
Do the services you provide require the use of a boom crane, cherry picker, mobile equipment, ladders, or scaffolds?
Do the services you provide require the issuance of a high hazard permit (i.e., hot work, confined space, LOTO, etc), or do the services you provide require a permit or written Job Safety Analysis (JSA) or Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)?
Require and monitor the following
Contractor, Business, Professional/Occupational
#9 Financial Stability
If you are awarding work, you better know they’ll be around tomorrow
A lot of great providers out there. BROWZ has integrated Experian’s financial stability indicator provides a view of the company’s overall financial health
Experian works heavily with a lot of the smaller contractors
Possibilities
Voluntary employment
Child labor
Freedom of association
Work Environment and conditions
Anti-corruption
Renumeration
New Trends in supply chain qualification
ELM
Time and attendance tracking
Audit
Mobile
PAT CUNNINGHAM SLIDE
Seeded Questions
We have our own program, what are the advantages to using a 3rd party. Will they have problems understanding our suppliers?
If we brought on a 3rd party, we already have SAP how can a system like you described integrate?
We work in a sector where confidentiality of data is essential. You don’t talk about this, why?
We work with lots of small local companies, we do this as part of our corporate initiatives, can a 3rd party work with all sizes of companies I would hate to penalize the smaller companies?
We are currently looking at a global supply chain solution, how do you manage cultural and global differences?
In your opinion, which function is best to manage this program. Procurement, EHS, Quality?
How do you overcome the issue of contractors not wanting to participate in a program or submit data?
We have our own program, what are the advantages to using a 3rd party. Will they have problems understanding our suppliers?
What are the 2-3 most important items you would recommend we track on contractors?