Poll: How did you learn to be an effective vendor manager?

Posted by Anthony on Monday, March 24, 2008 · 2 Comments 

Vendor management is not a traditional discipline, like project management, software development, or operations management.

Take a moment to share how you learned to be an effective vendor manager in this poll:

Have incentives (bonuses for certain performance targets or milestones) in your vendor contracts improved vendor performance?

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2 Responses to “Poll: How did you learn to be an effective vendor manager?”
  1. Mark Stelzner says:
    March 25, 2008 at 6:28 am

    Great poll. One organization that attempted to bring together the discipline of procurement with strategic relationship management is the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP – http://www.strategic-alliances.org). It has gone through some significant changes since 1999 (when I first met them while working in Silicon Valley). I’d love 360 Vendor Management’s view on whether ASAP provides specific value add in the context of outsourcing relationship management.

    Best,
    Mark

  2. tony says:
    March 25, 2008 at 8:28 am

    Mark – thanks for the feedback and insights. I’ll check them out…stay tuned.

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