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Supplier benchmarking

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• What is supplier benchmarking?• How does Kopiki make this process easy?• Benchmarking actions.

Supplier benchmark process

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What is supplier benchmarking?

• Supplier benchmarking is one of the methods that can be used to identify areas of improvement in the supply chain and to make efforts to address them as part of a continuous improvement process

• An alternative and also highly valuable implementation of supplier benchmarking is as a tool to research the market and compare the offers from different suppliers for a product/service , against price and also other identified criteria

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How does Kopiki make this process easy?

• To benchmark suppliers in Kopiki when no immediate purchase is planned

• Open a marketplace in the normal way by selecting a product/ service category but identify the project as “Research only”

• This enables the suppliers to understand the nature of themarketplace and how to manage their time

• Prices can still be submitted in the normal way along with answers to questions using the Q&A function

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Benchmarking actions.

• Following the collation of information from suppliers through the Kopiki benchmarking process you may then decide on one of the following next steps– Open a marketplace for purchase of products/services– Open a further research marketplace– Re-plan your purchasing plans based on market feedback– Open a marketplace for alternative products/services– Update/ enhance your continuous improvement plans

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