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Supplier Development and Recognition
Growth requires
coordination and alignment with suppliers on objectives, processes, and
standards of excellence, and levels of performance.External support is an excellent facilitation
tool to ensure alignment and a common foundation for growth. When companies
want to succeed in building global supply chains despite the risks, they turn
to Boston Strategies International for benchmarking, auditing, negotiation, and
logistical planning.
For more information about supplier development and recognition, please visit our library of resources below.
Our Supplier Development and Recognition Library includes:
Each year our firm conducts an in-depth global supply chain benchmark study in which diverse companies respond from countries as widespread as Australia, Fiji, Germany, India, Italy, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, and the
United States. Winners are evaluated based on their demonstrated supply chain processes and performance on
four Dimensions: Cost Leadership, Reliability, Customization, and Innovation as described in The Guide to Supply Chain Management, by The Economist).
Recent award winners include:
Qatar Fuel (Qatar). Qatar
Fuel won the Overall Supply Chain Excellence
award based on its superior stock accuracy, delivery responsiveness and
cycle time, uptime, manufacturing yield, return on net assets, and cost
per order .
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (India). Bharat
Petroleum won the Supply Chain Synchronization award based on its
superior Order Accuracy, Inventory Management, and Asset Productivity.
FMC
Kongsberg Subsea (Norway). FMC won the Supply Chain Synchronization
award based on its superior Supplier
Management, Order Fulfillment Reliability, and Overall Asset
Productivity.
In 2009 the winners received their awards at the luxurious
five-star Dusit Thani Hotel in Dubai.
Click here to see pictures of the Awards Ceremony.
Click here to read about the Awards process.
This year the award ceremony will take place on November 8th at a hotel in Dubai, concurrent with BSI's Oil and Gas Supply Chain Management workshop. Award winners are entitled to one guest pass to a two-day seminar dedicated to Supply Chain Management, one round trip airline ticket to and from Dubai, luxury accommodations, and the Awards Ceremony. This year the awards are focused on Oil and Gas. There are three categories: Oil Company, Equipment Provider, and Service Provider. The scope includes both offshore and onshore operations.
Oil Company includes: Upstream (Exploration For Crude Oil and Natural Gas; Drilling, Completing, and Equipping Wells; and Processing such as Separation, Emulsion Breaking, Desilting, and Field Petroleum Gathering, including Shale Plays and Oil Sands); Midstream (Storage, Transloading, Pipeline, and Tanker Operation); and Downstream (Production Of Gasoline, Kerosene, Diesel and Other Distillate Fuel Oils, Residual Fuel Oils, and Lubricants).
Equipment Provider includes: Drilling Equipment, Piping, Valves, Vessel and Internals, Pumps, Compressors, Mixers and Agitators, Drivers, Heat Exchangers, Instrumentation, Electrical Equipment, Furnace and Boiler Tubes, Insulation and Refractories, Paints and Coatings, Materials Handling, Tools, and related equipment.
Service Provider includes: Bulk Storage, Transloading, Pipeline Operation, Vessel Chartering, Offshore and Onshore Construction & Installation, Seismic Services, Offshore and Onshore Rig Operation, Drilling and Directional Drilling, Pressure Pumping and Cementing, Well Fracturing & Stimulation, Fluid Services, Marine Services, Inspection, Testing, Compression Services, and related services.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Camila Paz Soldan at cpazsoldan@bostonstrategies.com or (1) (781) 263-7218.
Thought Leadership Articles
Good Better Best In everything we do we try hard to achieve excellence, and we are usually quite proud of our results. Yet no matter how much we work at something, our first attempt is usually only "good." If we try harder, longer, and smarter, we can usually do "better." Once in awhile, if we try as hard as we can and show great patience and respect for our subject, we can achieve "best." This same story applies to our jobs in supply chain management.
Supplier Development: More Than a Good Idea Sometimes suppliers have solutions that exceed the needs of most of their customers, and all the buyer needs to do is sign on the dotted line. Often, however, buyers' needs are more advanced than the supply market or buyers have more customized needs than available solutions can satisfy. In these cases, buyers must develop suppliers and their solutions to meet their requirements. Boston Strategies International's annual supply chain awards help to identify and acknowledge excellent supplier performance and outstanding examples of collaboration between buyers and suppliers.
Click here to read about the winners of BSI's 2009 awards.
Aligning Goals for Supply Chain Success Superlative supply chain performance is directly tied to the alignment of goals and objectives up and down the value chain. The tighter the linkage, the more performance the supply chain delivers. Knowing the key leverage points and what targets to set is critical to long-term success.
Focusing on the Right Suppliers Companies have been consolidating their supplier base for more than 15 years. But, if you think they're done tightening that core group, guess again. Some have chosen that emphasis in order to leverage the purchasing power of multiple new acquisitions; others are using it to restore or increase profitability to acceptable levels following the recent recessionary period. Regardless of the cause, the trend is hard to ignore.
