Vendor Management Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Vendor Management Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Vendor Management related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Vendor Management specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Vendor Management Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Vendor Management improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. How can enhancements to existing actuation, locking and detection technologies improve reliability, reduce whole life cost and result in reductions in maintenance?
   
   

2. How can alternative and innovative actuation, locking and detection systems improve reliability, reduce whole life cost and result in a reduction in maintenance?
   
   

3. What is your organizations overall strategy and what core system, digital channels, payments and other ancillary variables are required to achieve overall goals?
   
   

4. Have system implementations significantly affected organization strategies related to training, outsourcing, and developing and retaining critical skills?
   
   

5. Does the vendor you are considering have a history of evolving its portfolio to keep pace with rapidly evolving development techniques and threats?
   
   

6. What one program could you eliminate that would result in impactful cost savings with no/minimal/positive impact on mission delivery?
   
   

7. Is communication maintained between buyers and vendors regarding new product offerings that may be beneficial to your organization?
   
   

8. What are the operational service level agreements needed to deliver the service to the internal client and/or external customer?
   
   

9. Has human performance data collection and analysis been identified to verify compliance with human factors requirements?
   
   

10. What is required for organizations to successfully take advantage of the promise of supply chain management?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Vendor Management book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Vendor Management self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Vendor Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Vendor Management areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Vendor Management Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Vendor Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Vendor Management Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Vendor Management project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Management Plan: Are the results of quality assurance reviews provided to affected groups & individuals?
   
   

2. Closing Process Group: What were things that you did very well and want to do the same again on the next Vendor Management project?
   
   

3. Assumption and Constraint Log: Have the scope, objectives, costs, benefits and impacts been communicated to all involved and/or impacted stakeholders and work groups?
   
   

4. Probability and Impact Matrix: Is the number of people on the Vendor Management project team adequate to do the job?
   
   

5. Scope Management Plan: Describe the process for accepting the Vendor Management project deliverables. Will the Vendor Management project deliverables become accepted in writing?
   
   

6. Probability and Impact Assessment: Do you use diagramming techniques to show cause and effect?
   
   

7. Team Operating Agreement: Do you send out the agenda and meeting materials in advance?
   
   

8. Risk Register: What would the impact to the Vendor Management project objectives be should the risk arise?
   
   

9. Lessons Learned: Is there a clear cause and effect between the activity and the lesson learned?
   
   

10. Risk Register: What are your key risks/show istoppers and what is being done to manage them?


 
Step-by-step and complete Vendor Management Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Vendor Management project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Vendor Management project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Vendor Management project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Vendor Management project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Vendor Management project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Vendor Management project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Vendor Management project with this in-depth Vendor Management Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Vendor Management projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Vendor Management and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Vendor Management investments work better.

This Vendor Management All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.