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Supplier Evaluation & Selection Flashcards

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  1. What is the purpose of a supplier pre-qualification process?

    Answer: To screen potential vendors against minimum capability and compliance thresholds before solicitation

    Pre-qualification filters out suppliers who cannot meet baseline requirements, ensuring the RFP is sent only to capable and compliant vendors.

  2. Which metric BEST measures a supplier's on-time delivery performance?

    Answer: On-Time-In-Full (OTIF) rate

    OTIF (On-Time-In-Full) captures both timing and completeness of deliveries, making it the most comprehensive delivery performance metric.

  3. During a site visit, a buyer observes excessive work-in-progress inventory and disorganized storage. These observations MOST likely indicate:

    Answer: Process inefficiencies that could affect quality and lead times

    Excessive WIP and poor organization are symptoms of poor process control, which can lead to quality escapes and unpredictable lead times.

  4. A buyer wants to evaluate the true cost of sourcing from an offshore supplier. Which analytical approach captures freight, duties, and carrying costs beyond unit price?

    Answer: Landed cost analysis

    Landed cost analysis aggregates unit price with transportation, tariffs, insurance, and inventory carrying costs to reveal the total delivered cost.

  5. Which of the following BEST describes 'supplier development'?

    Answer: Collaborative efforts to improve a supplier's capabilities and performance

    Supplier development involves the buying organization investing resources—training, technical support, joint kaizen events—to improve a strategic supplier's performance.

  6. When using a request for information (RFI), the primary objective is to:

    Answer: Gather market intelligence and supplier capabilities before issuing an RFP

    An RFI is a non-binding tool used to collect information about supplier capabilities, technologies, and market conditions prior to a formal solicitation.

  7. A supplier's defect rate consistently falls just below the contract's penalty threshold. This pattern MOST likely signals:

    Answer: Gaming the SLA metrics rather than improving root-cause quality

    Consistently hovering just below a penalty threshold suggests the supplier is managing to the metric rather than driving genuine quality improvement.