Elevate Your Vendor Management Initiative

Once your vendor management initiative (VMI) has been operating for a while, it's time to take the next step in its evolution. It's time to transform the VMI from...
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Elevate Your Vendor Management Initiative – Executive Brief

Read this Executive Brief to understand how changes in the vendor landscape and customer reliance on vendors require the vendor management initiative to become strategic...

Elevate Your Vendor Management Initiative – Phases 1-4

This storyboard will help you take your vendor management initiative framework to the next level as it continues to evolve and mature.

Elevate Your Vendor Management Initiative – Phase 1

This phase focuses on ensuring that the foundational elements for your vendor management initiative are in place and up to date.

Elevate Your Vendor Management Initiative – Phase 2

This phase leads you through the build process to configure new tools and templates and introduces more sophisticated models from prior blueprints.

Elevate – Tools and Templates Compendium

This compendium contains 12 tools and templates to continue building and running your vendor management initiative.

Elevate – MVP Model Vendor Classification Tool

This contemporary vendor classification tool also helps you objectively determine which vendors are the most important ones to your organization, but it provides...

Elevate – OPEN Model Customer Positioning Tool

This tool helps you objectively identify how your vendors perceive your organization as one of their customers.

Elevate Your Vendor Management Initiative – Phase 3

This phase helps you incorporate the new and updated tools and templates into the vendor management initiative.

Elevate – Relationship Assessment and Improvement Tool

This assessment and improvement tool allows you to identify relationship elements important to your organization and evaluate your vendors against those criteria.
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