The Business Insight Process

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Your supply chain represents one of the primary cost factors in your production or service delivery process. Your relationships with your suppliers is evaluated to maximize your strategic leverage.

Sample Feedback: When you commit to producing a product that requires time critical deliveries of materials from a supplier, you have placed considerable confidence in the reliability of that supplier. If that confidence is misplaced, your ability to meet your production requirements may be substantially impaired. A high assertion rating indicates reliable suppliers.

Rating	Immediate contributing factors	Weighting
20	Few suppliers are close to the business	10
60	Some suppliers have a good record for on time delivery	10
80	Substitute materials are readily available	10
80	Most suppliers are not prone to union problems	10
90	Most suppliers are financially stable	10
90	Most supplier pricing is competitive	10
70	Evaluation

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