Vendor Management Toolkit

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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 997 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 997 standard requirements:

  1. Do you consider the third parties of your vendors when vetting new vendors or performing ongoing reviews of existing vendors?

  2. Are there huge differences between how your organization and your vendor thinks about file transfer security?

  3. What are the benefits to client organization of using platforms/online applications for hiring temp workers?

  4. Can customer centricity be achieved in financial institutions without a radical change in operating model?

  5. Have basic data profiling tools been made available for use anywhere in the system development lifecycle?

  6. How effectively are compliance and ethics controls and processes standardized, integrated, and automated?

  7. Does the corrective action process include root cause analysis and preventative mechanism implementation?

  8. Does the facility have procedures in place to ensure all overtime performed at the facility is voluntary?

  9. Who has the ultimate responsibility for making sure consultant contracts are in compliance with statutes?

  10. Why enterprise ceos must involve CIOs when it comes to investing in digital solutions for the business?


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 997 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. Change Management Plan: How will you deal with anger about the restricting of communications due to confidentiality considerations?

  2. Planning Process Group: Product breakdown structure (pbs): what is the Vendor Management project result or product, and how should it look like, what are its parts?

  3. Activity Duration Estimates: Will additional funds be needed for hardware or software?

  4. Requirements Management Plan: Is requirements work dependent on any other specific Vendor Management project or non-Vendor Management project activities (e.g. funding, approvals, procurement)?

  5. Risk Audit: Do requirements put excessive performance constraints on the product?

  6. Human Resource Management Plan: Was your organizations estimating methodology being used and followed?

  7. Procurement Audit: Does the procurement unit have sound commercial awareness and knowledge of suppliers and the market?

  8. Source Selection Criteria: What is the effect of the debriefing schedule on potential protests?

  9. Change Management Plan: What is the worst thing that can happen if you chose not to communicate this information?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What is the last item a Vendor Management project manager must do to finalize Vendor Management project close-out?

 
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.