Supplier Assessment & Development

Quality supply chain partners are vital to your success as a manufacturer. You need to choose suppliers who can produce products at the quality level you need, when you need them, at the right price, every time. The Supplier Assessment process typically starts with a Value Stream Map to help you fully recognize the intimate details of your current processes, including accurately identifying what comes into the company and what goes out. Most manufacturers naturally tend to focus on the high-value items in their Supply Chain, the big pieces, but it’s the small details that will often get you – imagine running out of simple shipping labels causing a serious delay and backlog to your logistics. Armed with an accurate map of all the pieces involved in your production, you can then examine your supply chain history overall, noting strengths, weaknesses, failures and successes. This is the baseline information you need to understand your hard and soft risks, make decisions for improvement, and perhaps most importantly, identify strategic advantages and opportunity.