Supplier Evaluation and Approval forms - Discussion and Evaluation Examples

[Mike S.]

Todd,

Sounds okay to me -- if it works for your company that is the most important thing. Just one minor point: How do you select the supplier for the first (initial) PO? Might want to say something like "Purchasing Manager selects a prospective supplier based on advertising, references from others, previous experiences, etc. Then, an initial order is placed with the prospective supplier.

Then add your stuff.

Make sure you describe who has the responsibilities for the activities you say you will carry-out, then make sure you actually DO it.

JMHO.

 

[Jonathon Haddow]

we have decided that the way to do our supplier appraisal is to evaluate them on the incoming quality, ie reject rate at incoming inspection. We are a relatively small distributer/inventory mangement company in the Aerospace industry. The parts we buy have very specific certification requirements and the requirement is on our customer to ensure the actual part complies with the required specification. all we check is if the paperwork is correct ie JAA form One or 8130-3. The feeling is that we are so small a customer of our suppliers we would not get a very good response to a supplier questionare, and unfortunately a lot of our suppliers are either sole source or one of a very limited no of sources. I am also trying to get data on OTIF (On Time In Full), and margins to include these in the supplier evaluation. when we do have a problem with a supplier they are contqcted and if the performance does not improve the are removed from the list of approved suppliers.

 

[howste]

My favorite approach is similar to what Jonathon suggests. More extensive Initial qualification, then ongoing monitoring of supplier performance (quality, delivery, etc.). You also don't have to treat all suppliers the same. ISO 9001 requires that you establish criteria, but they can vary depending on the importance of the products they supply.

 

[energy]

C'mon. Are you playing with us?

howste said:

ISO 9001 requires that you establish criteria, but they can vary depending on the importance of the products they supply.

Always one to be curious about newbee's post and separating the wheat from the chaff, I pulled up the address on your license plate Avitar and came up with .....zilch. Help us out here. Maybe, I'm the unappointed Cove Marshall, or just nosy, but why can't I hook up that address? Just call me Spam Man! If it's me and I'm doing something wrong, please tell me. I will be the first to say, Mea Culpa! How about it?

 

[energy]

Re: C'mon. Are you playing with us?

energy said:

Always one to be curious about newbee's post and separating the wheat from the chaff, I pulled up the address on your license plate Avitar and came up with .....zilch. Help us out here. Maybe, I'm the unappointed Cove Marshall, or just nosy, but why can't I hook up that address? Just call me Spam Man! If it's me and I'm doing something wrong, please tell me. I will be the first to say, Mea Culpa! How about it?

howste, Mea Culpa, (see what I mean?)

I see that you are from a ISO Consulting Firm and for some reason, the browser I tried to pull up the site on last week, didn't respond. Blame aol. However, from home, I was successful. I am truly sorry for casting doubt on the motives of your post. Call me embarrassed.

 

[howste]

No problem, Energy. Now that I've stumbled upon the Cove, I plan to visit regularly. Hopefully I'll be able to help out a little as well as have some of my own ISO 9001 & TS 16949 questions answered here. It seems like there are quite a few friendly and knowledgeable people here.

 

[Marc]

Here's a somewhat generic form I've used.

 

[Marc]

A quickie form

A 'quickie' form.

 

[Claes Gefvenberg]

Yesterday, I recieved a supplier questionnaire that prompted me to resurrect this thread.

One of the questions read: Is your Company registered to BS5750/ISO9002 Pt. 1, 2, or 3 or BSI Stockist of Assessed Capability? If not, are you planning to register?

It occurred to me that it ought to be a good idea to actually read your questions before sending them out . I wonder how old they are? As it happens, we have no intention to register to an obsolete standard mere months before its final demise.

There were also other peculiar questions, several of which made me think about db's "Where is the shall?".

Thus, I rate the value added by this questionnaire to be exceedingly limited. But: I acted like a good boy and filled it in.

/Claes

 

[Mike S.]

Has anyone else noticed supplier evaluation forms/surveys becoming increasingly intrusive over issues like annual sales, percent markup on raw materials; percent markup on purchased materials; G&A markup; labor rate; overhead rate; outstanding debt; sales, profit and loss for last 5 years; market share percentages; etc. etc. ? Some of these surveys seem more like they're coming from VC's or major lenders than potential customers.

Opinions?