Welcome to APC Europe (Case 13-1, pages 390-394)! You are replacing
Maggie, who
Welcome to APC Europe (Case 13-1, pages 390-394)!You are replacing Maggie, who was
fired for her inability to handle the quality problems at Branco, a major supplier for
APC.APC’s production manager, Eric Koendeeile, has demanded a new supplier replace
Branco, and your job is to produce an RFP for these parts and/or services. There are a series
of issues in this case that must be addressed by any potential supplier submitting a RFP,
including cost, quality, quantity, customization and delivery performance.APC has produced
a set of Supplier Performance Scoring Criteria that must be included in a RFP, and the
winning bidder must be able to obtain at least a grade of three for all Quality, Delivery, and
Continuous Improvement criteria (see specific information contained in case).For examples
of RFPs, please refer to Carson Case and any of the RFP examples and excel spreadsheets
available in the next Canvas link in this module. Your job, as the replacement for Maggie, is
to produce a RFP that can be used to inform potential suppliers of the specifications and
expectations for these products. The templates (use any of our samples or select from other
sources) can be very useful for establishing a framework for your RFP, and then customize
it for APC and their needs. You will have to “clean up” these original templates, because they
were designed and used for companies other than APC!!The RFP you are creating will be
sent out to suppliers; do not make up any response from any supplier, however. You need to
lead your suppliers to prepare adequate response to your RFP. So, providing them with a
spreadsheet template for how they should respond to your RFP would make sense. There
are critical issues in the RFP; how do you ensure the supplier addresses those specific
issues? There are many ways to do this, but possibly a simple way is to provide sample cost
templates with the critical areas listed in the template. Again,do not include any data in your
uploaded spreadsheets for processing the completed RFP.As always, use sections! End with
a concluding section that includes your specific learning from the assignment.Write well
and use good organization and paragraphs. Avoid use of first person writing and dangling
participles. If you are not sure what dangling participles are, google it! You can be sure that
professor knows what they are!