Supplier Management, One Voice to the Supplier
In small or large buying organisations, it is important to define a single contact window responsible for Supplier Management.
Supplier Onboarding Evaluation and Delivery
On-Boarding, new suppliers is a process of accessing capability and capacity to meet the business demand of the sourcing strategy / supplier matrix as a result of product category introduction, expansion or existing supplier risk.
Can Buyers Benefit from Supply Chain Finance?
Through factoring, Buyers can gain a credit facility through a factoring organisation like Stenn International where the Seller pays the finance charges of goods exported internationally.
Sellers, Trade Finance Delivers Value to Buyers
Factoring or Trade Finance is a mechanism that frees exporters capital delivering a positive cash flow providing value to both Sellers and Buyers of any commodity.
Factoring delivers Payment Credit to Buyers
In first world countries, credit ratings are transparent, allowing enterprises access to overdrafts, extended credit limits and payment terms or various forms of finance from financial institutions. In developing countries, this is not necessarily the case.
Is CSR a Modern Brand Building Mechanism?
25 years after social responsibility in the apparel and textile industry came into existence, has it really made a difference
Costing Frameworks Benchmark Profitable Sourcing
Developing a costing framework that is transparent and works across the global sourcing organisation to capture total cost of ownership is key to enabling supplier price benchmarking, mitigating margin risk across the supply chain and delivering profitable sourcing.
Supplier ScoreCard, Benchmarking Performance
Supplier Score-Carding is a continuous improvement tool that manages suppliers through benchmarking, and is a core enabler of the supplier sourcing strategy and the supplier matrix.
Supplier Matrix, Define the Supplier Network Capability and Capacity
Building and improving a reliable supplier matrix that supports business and category objectives is a critical tool in driving a sustainable sourcing strategy.
Sustainable Sourcing Strategies Deliver Business Objectives
For businesses to achieve strategic sourcing objectives there needs to be a clear and concise strategy that is agile, sustainable and lean that will maximise category value and margin, limits global supply risk safeguarding product demand objectives, and meet social compliance, environmental and product quality goals.
Delivering Strategic Sourcing TCO Improvement
Delivering strategic sourcing improvement doesn’t just come from finding new suppliers, it starts internally with understanding the business strategy and direction, market intelligence on competitors, customer direction and historical analytics.
Explain the Development and Production Process to know gaps in the Supplier Process
There are three different platforms to sourcing products. Buying organisations need to define what their business model is and how their process operates, never expect the supplier will understand your business model and process.
