Whether you have a supplier that wants more of your business or a one who’s not performing up to your standards, you need an effective way to review and audit their performance that produces viable information for you to make informed decisions.
• Crafting mutually beneficial supplier scorecards so they know exactly how they’re performing against your SOW
• Obtaining the right mix of data to benchmark
• At what point do you determine your suppliers need to be audited—is there a regular schedule or review process?
• What are the best methods to audit your suppliers?
• Is it possible to work with underperforming suppliers to bring them back up?

Some categories don’t have natural owners, or are considered too high profile and therefore out of reach of procurement. This panel will discuss why procurement hasn’t traditionally touched these categories, and how to make an aggressive business case for managing the final frontiers in the business:
• Emergency management and safety
• Lean process improvement
• Risk management and insurance
• Regulatory and audit
• Energy management