Supplier Manager

Valuemation Supplier Manager strives to reduce the costs and effort associated with assessing, selecting and engaging suppliers.

Business Partner Category

Business Partner Category objects classify business partners according to the area of service.

Business Partner Graduation

Business Partner Graduation objects classify business partners according to their importance within supplier relationships.

Evaluable Competency

Objects of the Evaluable Competency object type represent individual qualities of the business partner performance.

Evaluation

Evaluation is the final product of the process calculated from Evaluation Items. It is a weighted average from all evaluation inputs for a given supplier and a given period of time.

Evaluation Input

Evaluation Input is an assessment of a given supplier by a given evaluator for a given period of time.

Observation

An evaluation input item can contain so called 'Observations'. Observations record the evaluator's comments and other information relevant for each competency.

Process Relevance Group

Objects of the Process Relevance Group object type facilitate grouping of process roles according to their position in supplier relationships.

Process Role

Individual contact persons linked to business partners receive a 'Process Role'. Process role expresses to role of the person in the supplier relationship and enables consistent person linking.

Supplier (object type Business Partner)

Suppliers are represented by objects of the 'Business Partner' object type with the 'Partner Type' attribute set to 'Supplier'.

Targeted measures

Targeted measures represent tasks that should be performed to ensure proper evaluation.