Difference Between Suppliers and Sellers

[warshe]

Please, give me a help in two questions.

1) During an internal audit in supply department I have noted that one firm, which had been executing the large and regular supplies to us by the international contract, had not been listed in the list of suppliers and its activities had not been reviewed. I put the question to manager of Supply Department about the absence of that supplier in the list of suppliers. The manager answered that this particular supplier was not reviewed and listed because firstly- it is not supplier it is seller, and secondly-because it is not a manufacturer it is a middle firm. I tried to explain that ISO 9001 makes no difference between supplier and seller, but could not succeed. Please, tell me whether the separation in suppliers and sellers should take place or ISO 9001 definition of “supplier” embraces the sellers too. I can not truly realize the deference between “supplier” and “seller” in international contract for large batches of metal . Please, help me.

2) In the same international contract I noted, that in condition of supply (in that case, FOB (Free or Board)) was not concretized by INCOTERMS’ year of issue. I heard in a short talk, that in international contract parties should exactly determine INCOTERMS’ year of issue, whether it is 1990 or 2000 or something else. Please, tell me about possible consequences of missing of INCOTERMS’ year of issue mention in the text of international contract. Or this mention is not always necessary ?

[Jim Biz]

"Supplier"

Organization or PERSON that provides a product
IE - Producer/distributor/reatiler/vender of product - OR provider of service information

IE - Internal or External

IE - can in a contract situation be called contractor

The way the definition reads - I'm interpreting ANY-ONE that you purchase items OR INFORMATION that are/is in turn used in your product/processes are considered suppliers.

[CarolX]

In a past life I defined our suppliers, since we maintained different controls over different suppliers.

We had -

Distributors
Manufactures
Services
Sole Sources

CarolX