Supplier Management Handbook

The Supplier Management Handbook explains why managing important suppliers effectively is essential to delivering value for money, maximising supplier performance and minimising risk in your supply chain. 

The Handbook complements the Supplier Management Workbook which is used to record all key details about how a relationship with a key supplier is working.  It defines what “Supplier Management” is, what benefits it should deliver, and how to do it. 

The Supplier Management Handbook expands on any existing policy and procedural documents in your organisation, and describes how the expectations in those documents should be met. 

Supplier Managers (who are responsible for many of the Supplier Management activities) and Executive Sponsors (who are accountable for many of the Supplier Management activities) will find the Handbook to be essential reading. 

Why? 

The Supplier Management Handbook is an essential guide into how to get the best from your relationships with key suppliers.   

It provides extensive detail on how to use the Supplier Management Workbook.   

What is the Supplier Management Handbook? 

A Powerpoint/PDF document with over 70 pages within it that explains how you can maximise value and minimise risk in your relationships with key suppliers.   

It is an essential guide to getting the best from your suppliers. 

How should you use it? 

Read it in conjunction with the Supplier Management Workbook, to help you use the Workbook to best effect. 

Or, read it for its own sake.  It covers a wide range of supplier management topics including governance, relationship management, segmentation, risk management, commercial management, performance management and much more. 

When? 

Consult the Supplier Management Handbook at any time to help you on your journey to becoming more expert at Supplier Management.   

Who? 

Anyone who has responsibility for the relationship with a key supplier should read the Supplier Management Handbook.  It’s a great resource for Supplier Managers, Contract Managers or Procurement Managers.

Executive Sponsors should also be familiar with its contents.