

Enabling Supplier Innovation - Building the Business Case for SRM (Part 3)
Value-added innovation is anything promoting efficiency or mitigating risk and can be as mundane as getting a supplier to license technology


Reducing Supplier Risk - Building the Business Case for SRM (Part 4)
In this post in our series on developing the business case for investing in supplier relationship management (SRM) capabilities, we focus on reducing supplier risk. (Catch up on the first three entries here, as well as the introduction.) Supplier qualification (SQ), a subcomponent of SRM, enables your organization to identify suppliers with weak quality management processes, thereby minimizing your exposure to supplier noncompliance with safety, insurance, environmental and s