Classification Of Common Supplier Problems. And The Solutions.

As a Purchaser you want to care about costs and saving money. But what disturbs you all the time are problems in the daily business: if a supplier seems not fit to the needs of daily business. Those problems have to be solved before thinking more strategic again. Therefore some help would be fine to solve those problems quickly. If you take this systematic and the possible solutions behind those core problems you have a good chance to solve things quicker and to have more time for your real goals as a purchaser. Maybe you will trace and printout this classification and make notes on it. Maybe you exchange your experience with purchasers from other companies and learn to know what they have tried. Sure you will try additional solutions and built up experience quicker than without having a structure behind. And maybe you include it in the annual appraisals with your suppliers.