VENDOR RATING

For most companies it is not enough to evaluate suppliers solely on the purchasing price.

Along with the evolution of vendor relationships, the importance of parameters like puntuality and quality of deliveries, flexibility on program changes, technological development capability and support in developing new products is increasing.

This is the reason why the need of selecting and evaluating suppliers on the global service provided is spreading in major companies.

COMPLEXITY OF GLOBAL EVALUATION

The choice and the start-up of an effective, costless and easy-to-use Vendor Rating technique is a complex set of activities. In fact, it requires a profound insight on the customer's business context, a deep comprehension of the management issues related to purchasing and production, and awareness of the main characteristics of customers and suppliers.

The main Vendor Rating issues can be resumed as follows:

supplier classification related to the strategic relevance of supply (regular suppliers, integrated suppliers and partner suppliers)
choice of measurable evaluation variables and choice of mesurement temporal horizons
difficulty in making an objective, economic and costless evaluation (choice of the best technique)
estimate of the real supplying cost (total cost evaluation)
need of making the evaluation transparent and motivating for the supplier, for leading its development

VALUE DELIVERED BY PRAGMATA

PRAGMATA offers to its customers experience and competence in designing and starting-up an effective vendor rating system, with low costs and in a reduced amount of time.

The project is lead for exploiting synergies along the whole purchasing process of the customer's company.