Vendor Performance Management Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Vendor Performance 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 994 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 Performance Management improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Do you monitor vendor performances, audit reports, compliance requirements, training effectiveness, quality of services, and risk management practices?
   
   

2. What performance metrics are currently in place with other customers that would be relevant to measure customer satisfaction?
   
   

3. How does the incorporation of AI impact the performance your product and its use of enterprise and endpoint resources?
   
   

4. Is vendor prepared to accept part of settlement as contingent on future revenue performance of your organization?
   
   

5. Do you eliminate redundant use of cloud services and optimize cost and performance based on business needs?
   
   

6. Is your organization willing to pay more to achieve a level of performance beyond the performance standard?
   
   

7. Are you managing your service providers to protect your business, from contract to performance monitoring?
   
   

8. Will working space and equipment for the consultants be provided by your organization or by the vendor?
   
   

9. Is your organization a proactive steward of labor rights, the environment and ethical supply practices?
   
   

10. How well do multiple, discrete IT assets combine to fulfill complex business performance requirements?
    
    


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 Performance Management book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Vendor Performance 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 Performance Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Vendor Performance 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 Performance 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 Performance Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Risk Audit: For paid staff, does your organization comply with the minimum conditions for employment and/or the applicable modern award?
   
   

2. Procurement Audit: Which contracts have been awarded for works, supply of products or provision of services?
   
   

3. Risk Audit: Does the Vendor Performance Management project team have experience with the technology to be implemented?
   
   

4. Project Performance Report: To what degree do team members frequently explore the teams purpose and its implications?
   
   

5. Procurement Audit: Is there an approval policy in which the final cost of an order exceeds the amount originally estimated on the requisition or purchase order?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: When competitive dialogue was used, did the contracting authority provide sufficient justification for the use of this procedure and was the contract actually particularly complex?
   
   

7. Human Resource Management Plan: Are Vendor Performance Management project team roles and responsibilities identified and documented?
   
   

8. WBS Dictionary: Are procedures established to prevent changes to the contract budget base other than the already stated authorized by contractual action?
   
   

9. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Ideas for developing soft skills at your organization?
   
   

10. Cost Management Plan: Is the Vendor Performance Management project sponsor clearly communicating the business case or rationale for why this Vendor Performance Management project is needed?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Vendor Performance Management project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Vendor Performance 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 Performance 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 Performance 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 Performance 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 Performance 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 Performance Management project with this in-depth Vendor Performance Management Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Vendor Performance 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 Performance 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 Performance Management investments work better.

This Vendor Performance 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.