Thirty-five manufacturing leaders in Supply Chain, Quality, and selected Network members participated in this survey conducted from March 2 to April 27.
Key Findings
- Majority use the risk of poor quality to assess suppliers – 73% of companies use the risk of poor quality to inform supplier quality management.
- 82% use self-assessment surveys prior to the first visit.
- Over a third developed in-house systems – 38% of companies reported developing in-house systems to collect supplier data.
- Scorecards are shared responsibility for most – 70% of companies have more than one function managing their scorecard, and a majority share responsibility between quality and procurement functions.
- The majority have some level of automation for scorecard data – 4 in 5 companies reported using semi-automated or fully automated methods to collect scorecard data.
